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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Louise about Harry?
(a) his lack of culture.
(b) the chances he takes in battle.
(c) his ill health.
(d) his interest in Lucy.

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

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

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

5. What does Louise sew for Fleury for his birthday present?
(a) a white shirt
(b) a red vest.
(c) blue trousers..
(d) a green coat.

6. Who was in charge of the Commissariat?
(a) Mr. Rayne.
(b) the Magistrate.
(c) the Collector.
(d) Harry.

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

8. Who was the only one paying attention as Harry explained how to shoot the rifles?
(a) Fleury.
(b) the Collector.
(c) the Padre.
(d) Barlow.

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

10. Which room was the Collector's favorite room and why?
(a) the study because it contained all his favorite objects.
(b) the library where all his books were.
(c) the dining hall where he could socialize.
(d) his bedroom where he felt safe and serene.

11. Who do Harry and Fleury set out into the town to rescue?
(a) Dr. Dunstaple.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Louise.

12. What one person besides the poorest natives in Krishnapur ate the melons?
(a) Lieutenant Cutter.
(b) Harry.
(c) the Collector.
(d) the Magistrate.

13. What is Harry afraid of?
(a) pariah dogs.
(b) a native uprising.
(c) cholera.
(d) snakes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had formed the habit of sleeping clasped in each other's arms?

2. Who does the Collector embrace on the stairs?

3. What animals had lived where Hari and the Prime Minister were now kept?

4. What smell does the Collector awake to?

5. What was the name of the Collector's English manservant?

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