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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who dragged the O'Hanlons away when they fainted?
(a) Ram.
(b) Harry.
(c) Fleury.
(d) the Collector.

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

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

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

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

7. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?
(a) the lack of attention of the people he read to.
(b) his wandering thoughts.
(c) the thick quantity of flies crawling on the pages.
(d) his weakened physical condition.

8. What did Miriam speak of which shocked Louise?
(a) the possibility of the women being raped during the siege.
(b) Mr. Hopkin's natural functions.
(c) the smell of urine.
(d) the boils the women were getting.

9. What has happened to Hari during his confinement in the tiger house?
(a) He wants to join forces with the British to fight in the siege.
(b) His personal hygiene has declined.
(c) He has become delirious.
(d) He has become homesick for his father, the Maharajah.

10. What does the Collector discuss with the Padre in the beginning of Chapter 31?
(a) original Sin.
(b) death.
(c) the fate of the garrison.
(d) the Great Exhibition.

11. Who is shot and dies in Chapter 30?
(a) Rayne.
(b) Simmons.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) Ford.

12. What was used to fan the O'Hanlons back to consciousness?
(a) the Illustrated Calcutta News.
(b) a poetry magazine.
(c) the Bible.
(d) the Illustrated London News.

13. What kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?
(a) blood letting.
(b) Chinese acupuncture.
(c) voodoo.
(d) Hindu sacrifice of animals.

14. Who took over the Commissariat from Mr. Rayne?
(a) Mr. Schleissner..
(b) Mr. Ford.
(c) Mr. Rose.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

15. What is the name given to the surviving infant?
(a) Faith.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Charity.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?

2. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?

3. Which of the women does Dr. McNab ask to care for the ailing Collector?

4. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?

5. What change had come over Lucy since the cockchafer episode?

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