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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Abdallah try to cheer up the Magistrate?
(a) by reassuring him that the British were safe.
(b) by telling him that the Bristish were a superior race.
(c) by telling him a Mohammedan joke against the Hindus.
(d) by telling him an entertaining Sufi tale.

3. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Dr. McNab.
(b) the Collector.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) the general.

4. Who was Barlow?
(a) the taciturn man from the Salt agency.
(b) the Magistrate's English manservant.
(c) a visiting dignitary.
(d) a lieutenant in the cantonment.

5. Who goes into labor at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Mrs. Dunstaple.
(b) Mrs. Barlow.
(c) Mrs. Vokins.
(d) Mrs. Scott.

6. 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) his shattered and dissheveled bedroom.
(d) the graves he digs.

7. What was the name of the Collector's English manservant?
(a) Higgins.
(b) Smith.
(c) Vokins.
(d) Blakely.

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

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

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

11. What appears in one of the rooms of the palace to the embarrassment of Hari?
(a) a monkey.
(b) an escaped cow.
(c) a local prostitute.
(d) a large spider.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Collector is once more alone in his study after he has made the rounds?

2. What were the money lenders known as?

3. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?

4. In what part of India is Krishnapur located?

5. Who disagrees with the Padre's view of God?

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