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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Collector mused about the qualities of what insects at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) bees.
(b) mosquitoes.
(c) ants.
(d) cockroaches.

2. What was the name of the Padre's mother?
(a) Mrs. Hampton.
(b) Mrs. Harvey.
(c) Mrs. Barlow.
(d) Mrs. Hadley.

3. What did the Padre complain about that was being done in the church?
(a) the storing of grain and powder at the back of the church.
(b) the use of the church as a hospital.
(c) the use of the church for the poetry club.
(d) letting animals take shelter there.

4. Who is accidentally lifted off the ground by the Eradicator?
(a) Harry.
(b) Mr. Rose.
(c) the Collector.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

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

6. What is the name of the Spaniel traveling with the new British arrivals in the colony?
(a) Chloe.
(b) Zoe.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Curly.

7. What were the money lenders known as?
(a) pariahs.
(b) infidels.
(c) khansamahs.
(d) bunniahs.

8. What was shattering the Collector's nerves in Chapter 10?
(a) the complaining of the women.
(b) the extreme heat.
(c) the high, shrill voice of the Padre.
(d) the sound of the jackals howling.

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

10. Who saved Fleury at the last moment when he was waiting for a sepoy to pierce him with a sabre?
(a) Barlow.
(b) Vokins.
(c) Harry.
(d) the Collector.

11. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?
(a) beliefs about phrenology.
(b) beliefs in the superiority of the British.
(c) German rationalist beliefs.
(d) beliefs in an afterlife.

12. What was the escaped monkey still wearing?
(a) a chain around its ankle.
(b) a sailor hat.
(c) a little sailor suit.
(d) a ribbon around its neck.

13. Which of the men had invented a two-pronged spear, "the Eradicator"?
(a) Fleury.
(b) Harry.
(c) Lieutenant Peterson.
(d) Cutter.

14. Who disagrees with the Padre's view of God?
(a) Harry.
(b) Louise.
(c) Fleury.
(d) the Collector.

15. Who were the dhobi?
(a) the Eurasians.
(b) Indians who washed the clothes of the British.
(c) waterbuffalo.
(d) native Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for Mr. Hopkins?

2. What did the frog do in the Sanskrit poem the Collector remembers?

3. What does Louise sew for Fleury for his birthday present?

4. There was talk of shooting what besides the dogs?

5. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?

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