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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?
(a) His eye becomes more inflamed and he becomes ill.
(b) He declares his love for Miriam.
(c) He becomes closer to his children.
(d) He and the Padre finally become close friends.

2. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?
(a) Mrs. Wright.
(b) Mrs. Browning.
(c) Mrs. Bennett.
(d) Mrs. White.

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

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

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

6. What did the young men find disturbing about Lucy's naked body?
(a) her pubic hair.
(b) the impropriety of her nakedness.
(c) the whiteness of her skin.
(d) her vulnerability.

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

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

9. What does the Collector eat at the end of Chapter 29?
(a) a black beetle.
(b) a handful of dal.
(c) an ant.
(d) a chapatis.

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

11. Where did the ladies stoutly refuse to move to when they were asked to leave the billiard room?
(a) the banqueting hall.
(b) the church.
(c) the stable.
(d) Dr. Dunstaple's house.

12. Who, besides Fleury, was affected deeply by the young orphan girl's death?
(a) the Collector.
(b) Harry.
(c) Dr. McNab.
(d) Dr. Dunstaple.

13. How does Fleury confuse the sepoys?
(a) by twirling his sabre around quickly.
(b) by pouring water on them.
(c) by shouting orders in the vernacular.
(d) by throwing a blanket over them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Miriam speak of which shocked Louise?

2. On what date did Mr. Ford warn that signs of an attack were imminent?

3. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?

4. What disease did Fleury think the Collector had when he visited him?

5. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?

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