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

3. What does Dr. McNab think causes cholera?
(a) filth and lack of hygiene.
(b) rice water.
(c) infected mosquitoes.
(d) spoiled, infected food.

4. The woman who bears the surviving infant is whose widow?
(a) the widow of a Sikh.
(b) the widow of a lieutenant.
(c) the widow of a railway engineer.
(d) the widow of an English servant.

5. What does the Collector do when he returns to London?
(a) He makes speeches about his time in India.
(b) He volunteers at the hospital.
(c) He marries an English noblewoman.
(d) He cancels all memberships in societes he used to belong to.

6. What happened to Fleury and Louise?
(a) They both remained single for the rest of their lives.
(b) They parted and married other people.
(c) They married each other and had a number of children.
(d) Louise married a barrister and Fleury remained single.

7. Who is helping Dr. McNab in Chapter 30?
(a) Mrs. Dunstaple.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Louise.
(d) Lucy.

8. Who shoots himself while lying in bed?
(a) a young clerk from the Postal Office.
(b) one of the Schleissner brothers.
(c) Vokins.
(d) one of the young soldiers.

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

10. What sensible idea did Harry Dunstaple come up with?
(a) firing chain shot.
(b) getting all able-bodied men to shovel at the ramparts.
(c) sacrifice a black goat to pacify the natives.
(d) planting the ramparts with foliage to secure them.

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

12. The Collector lives until what year?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1879.

13. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?
(a) ladies who speak up to him.
(b) ladies who are voluptuous.
(c) ladies who succumb to sleep in his presence.
(d) married ladies.

14. What was Louise suffering from?
(a) typhoid fever.
(b) chicken pox.
(c) scurvy.
(d) cholera.

15. What did the Collector shout from the window while watching the siege?
(a) Charge men, charge the sepoys!
(b) Long live Britain, long live the Queen!
(c) Man the canons, soldiers!
(d) Let us have tea on the lawn again!