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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?
(a) a small jar of honey.
(b) a teaspoonful of tea.
(c) a small piece of horse meat.
(d) a silk handkerchief.

2. Where is the Collector during the attack by the sepoys in Chapter 30?
(a) on the roof.
(b) in the drawing room.
(c) in his studio loading his pistols.
(d) at the top of the stairs in the banquet hall.

3. Who is Hookum Singh?
(a) a Eurasian living in the Residency.
(b) Hari's servant come to fetch him.
(c) an enemy sepoy felled in battle.
(d) a giant Sikh.

4. What worries Louise about her health besides her loose teeth and skin problems?
(a) She hasn't had her period for several weeks.
(b) Her fingernails have turned black.
(c) She has fur on her tongue.
(d) Her hair is falling out.

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

6. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?
(a) pray individually with the dying.
(b) perform funerals.
(c) keep his faith.
(d) hold church services.

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

8. Why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?
(a) The canons no longer work.
(b) It's just out of reach.
(c) They've run out of enough ammunition.
(d) There aren't enough armed British to destroy the cache.

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

10. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?
(a) fougasses.
(b) foumunitions.
(c) foupoudres.
(d) foudeterres.

11. Who became cold to Lucy after the cockchafer episode?
(a) Miriam and Louise.
(b) the Eurasian women.
(c) Harry and Fleury.
(d) the Collector and the Magistrate.

12. Who shot sparrows and made a curry from them?
(a) Mr. Ford.
(b) Mr. Rayne.
(c) Mr. Worseley.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

13. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?
(a) beliefs in Chartism, factory reform and social change.
(b) beliefs in religion and God.
(c) beliefs in progress and scientific discoveries.
(d) beliefs in the class system in England and India.

14. What people were assumed to be immune to cholera?
(a) Hindus.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Moslems.
(d) Jews.

15. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?
(a) They had a painful sting.
(b) They devoured any food in sight.
(c) They lent a sickening odor to anything they touched.
(d) They made a very loud buzzing sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Fleury and Louise?

2. What shocked the Collector when he looked in the mirror?

3. Who is made the godfather of the child?

4. What child died of a sunstroke?

5. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?

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