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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What smell does the Collector awake to?
(a) the smell of burning bungalows.
(b) the smell of jasmine growing outside his window.
(c) the smell of rotting melons.
(d) the smell of someone cooking wild pig.

2. Who did Fleury tease about her dimples to make Louise jealous?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Miriam.
(d) Fanny.

3. What is Fleury thinking about as the Padre and the Collector dig graves and argue?
(a) how he acted at the party in front of Louise.
(b) the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism.
(c) the seriousness of the siege.
(d) the comparison of the pariah dogs and the domestic dogs.

4. What does Fleury attempt to retrieve for the dead man's wife?
(a) his pocket bible.
(b) his locket.
(c) a lock of his hair.
(d) his pocket watch.

5. What animals had lived where Hari and the Prime Minister were now kept?
(a) horses.
(b) bullocks..
(c) goats
(d) tigers.

6. What does the Magistrate decide to do for the native Christians during the expected siege?
(a) give them a certificate stating their loyalty to the Residency.
(b) take them into the cantonment.
(c) give them guns to protect themselves.
(d) give them food.

7. What do the Collector and Miriam take a tour of?
(a) the opium factory.
(b) the local bazaar.
(c) the Maharajah's gardens.
(d) a local mosque.

8. How do the British men describe the upbringing of rich natives?
(a) as "thorough".
(b) as "stoic".
(c) as "effeminate".
(d) as "disciplined".

9. There was talk of shooting what besides the dogs?
(a) the wives.
(b) the Eurasians.
(c) the Indian servants.
(d) each other.

10. Who was Jackson?
(a) an indigo farmer who died during the siege.
(b) Dr. Dunstaple's nephew.
(c) the Padre's favorite parishoner.
(d) the soldier who had been singing about the Crimea.

11. What was the physical manifestation of the Collector's grieving mind?
(a) the piles of British possessions in the billiard room.
(b) the burned out bungalows.
(c) the graves he digs.
(d) his shattered and dissheveled bedroom.

12. What is George Fleury's sister's name?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Helen.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Louise.

13. What spirit does Fleury believe his century is based upon?
(a) the spirit of the New Testament.
(b) the spirit of the Old Testament.
(c) the spirit of science and invention.
(d) the spirit of rationalism.

14. In what part of India is Krishnapur located?
(a) Eastern India.
(b) Northern India.
(c) Western India.
(d) Southern India.

15. Fleury is afraid of the statue of what Indian God?
(a) Lord Bhairava.
(b) Krishna.
(c) the Elephant God.
(d) Kali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Fleury when he became excited?

2. Who do Harry and Fleury go back to try and save?

3. What is the name of cemeteries in Krishnapur?

4. Who saved Fleury at the last moment when he was waiting for a sepoy to pierce him with a sabre?

5. Who had the Ten Commandments translated into the vernacular and chiseled in stones by the roadside?

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