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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Collector call the Great Exhibition?
(a) Prince Albert's Folly.
(b) the World's Vanity Fair.
(c) a Preposterous Affair.
(d) the Grand Fiasco.

2. What change had come over Lucy since the cockchafer episode?
(a) She had become placid as a Madonna.
(b) She had become more demanding of attention.
(c) She wanted more than ever to commit suicide.
(d) She became nasty to everyone for no reason.

3. What was the noise Miriam heard when she returned to the Collector's bedside?
(a) canon fire.
(b) gun shot.
(c) frogs.
(d) rain.

4. What did the ladies battle over in the auction?
(a) a fine tooth comb to remove lice.
(b) sugar.
(c) tea.
(d) lavendar toilet water.

5. What do so-called amative characteristics exemplify according to phrenology?
(a) characteristics of romantic love.
(b) characteristics of sexual love.
(c) characteristics of a poetic nature.
(d) characteristics of goodwill to mankind.

6. What is Dr. Dunstaple supposed to have died from?
(a) scarlet fever.
(b) a heart attack.
(c) malaria.
(d) pneumonia.

7. What was "mendy"?
(a) a native substance used as skin cream.
(b) a native pomade for dyeing hair black.
(c) a native substitute for sugar.
(d) a native salve for treating boils.

8. What shocked the Collector when he looked in the mirror?
(a) His face was covered with red boils.
(b) His beard was sprouting red hairs.
(c) His teeth were very dark brown.
(d) Much of his hair had fallen out.

9. Why did the Collector go to the roof of the banqueting hall?
(a) to get some much needed fresh air.
(b) to be alone with his thoughts.
(c) to have a look at the river.
(d) to survey the cantonment.

10. What insects does Fleury observe in the banqueting hall in Chapter 27?
(a) chockchafers.
(b) white ants.
(c) mosquitoes.
(d) bees.

11. What fascinates the Magistrate about Lucy?
(a) her popularity with the men.
(b) her breasts.
(c) her statuesque figure.
(d) the back of her head.

12. Fleury was composing a poem about whom in Chapter 20?
(a) the Collector.
(b) Mary Porter.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Louise.

13. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?
(a) another two or three weeks.
(b) about a week.
(c) another month or two.
(d) another two or three days.

14. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?
(a) white.
(b) black.
(c) red..
(d) Union Jack.

15. What is Lucy talented at making?
(a) cartridges.
(b) little cakes with practically no flour.
(c) jokes to cheer everyone up.
(d) tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lucy want to eat?

2. What does the Collector do when he returns to London?

3. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?

4. Miriam was called away from the Collector''s bedside to assist Dr. McNab in what kind of operation?

5. What was the other name the dead lieutenant was known by?

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