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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dr. Dunstaple look like?
(a) medium-build, with an athletic body.
(b) thin and intellectual.
(c) large and imposing.
(d) fat, his legs looking too short for his round body.

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

3. Who sent a letter to Lucy begging her to come to the Residency for safety?
(a) Louise.
(b) Fleury.
(c) the Collector.
(d) Miriam.

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

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

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

7. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?
(a) bee pollen for the skin.
(b) rubbing mud into wounds.
(c) leeches.
(d) ants as stitches.

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

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

10. The native Christians sat with their backs against what trees?
(a) tamarind trees.
(b) beobab trees.
(c) oak trees.
(d) palm trees.

11. What happens when the Collector is once more alone in his study after he has made the rounds?
(a) A musket ball ricochets across the room.
(b) Ludy knocks on his door requesting to speak with him.
(c) He drinks a cup of Earl Gray tea.
(d) He kneels in prayer for the safety of the cantonment.

12. Which of the women had a beautiful voice and sang "Oh God our help in ages past..."?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Louise.
(c) Mrs, Dunstaple.
(d) Miriam.

13. What were some physical characteristics of Lucy?
(a) green eyes and red hair.
(b) voluptuous figure and beautiful, long curly light brown hair.
(c) large, sad eyes, dark hair, and perfect features.
(d) beautiful blue eyes and blond hair.

14. Which of the corpses should be buried in a different area than the others?
(a) Peterson.
(b) Donnelly.
(c) Peterson.
(d) Jackson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was there a massacre when the Magistrate was visiting the farmers and discussing the flooding of the river?

2. What did Hari , the Maharajah's son, sit on?

3. What were the names of the Collector's daughters who watched him through the telescope?

4. What was the escaped monkey still wearing?

5. What is George Fleury's sister's name?

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