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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Dr. McNab say the Collector suffered from?
(a) dysentery.
(b) scarlet fever.
(c) erysipelas.
(d) cholera.

3. Where did Fleury and the Collector meet in the late seventies?
(a) St. James.
(b) Hyde Park.
(c) Pall Mall.
(d) Barclay Square.

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

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

6. What was the other name the dead lieutenant was known by?
(a) Sharpshooter.
(b) Foxlett.
(c) Warfield.
(d) Springer.

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

8. What do the Sikhs refuse to do?
(a) listen to the Padre's endless sermons.
(b) eat the same food as the Europeans.
(c) use pistols, preferring sabres.
(d) drink from the same water as the Europeans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Whom did Mr. Ford notice among the returning sepoys?
(a) several groups of defecting Eurasians and native Christians.
(b) the armies of several maharajahs.
(c) several squadrons of lancers, trailing the green flag of Islam.
(d) native farmers who had joined themselves to the sepoys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ration of food does each person receive?

2. What did the Padre dream about when he was asleep?

3. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?

4. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?

5. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?

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