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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had been planned militarily for Tuesday, July 7th?
(a) dispersing the watching native crowd with canon shot.
(b) springing Cutter's mine beneath the sepoy positions.
(c) reinforcing the ramparts of the Residency.
(d) a surprise attack with canon against the sepoys.

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

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

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

5. What were the two fat Sikhs chewing in this chapter?
(a) pan.
(b) Kabul grapes.
(c) tobacco.
(d) chapatis.

6. What does Dr. Dunstaple call Dr. McNab?
(a) the Quack.
(b) the Gravedigger.
(c) the Idiot.
(d) the Coroner.

7. 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 rationalism.
(d) the spirit of the Old Testament.

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

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

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

11. What did the frog do in the Sanskrit poem the Collector remembers?
(a) sang all night long.
(b) reclined beneath the hood of the cobra.
(c) buried itself in the cool mud.
(d) took itself to the refuge of the river during the hot spell.

12. What area do the British assign Major Hogan to defend?
(a) Dunstaple's house, Cutcherry and rampart.
(b) the riverbank and melon fields.
(c) the native town and the mosque.
(d) the church and graveyard.

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

14. Who do Harry and Fleury ride to warn telling them to come to the Residency for safety?
(a) the soldiers.
(b) the opium factory workers.
(c) the indigo farmers.
(d) the Maharajah and his son Hari.

15. What about her looks upsets Louise?
(a) her oily, dirty hair.
(b) her fingernails.
(c) her thin, bony body from malnutrition.
(d) the spots and boils on her face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent a letter to Lucy begging her to come to the Residency for safety?

2. What is Louise able to make for them to eat to celebrate Fleury's birthday?

3. What topic does the Magistrate lecture about?

4. Which of the corpses should be buried in a different area than the others?

5. How did Abdallah try to cheer up the Magistrate?

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