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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the Padre dream about when he was asleep?
(a) that Jesus would feed them as he did the mulititudes.
(b) that the ravens were coming to feed him.
(c) that he was a lost sheep found by a shepherd.
(d) that he had finally saved the people from Sin.

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

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

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

7. What was Miriam's married name?
(a) Mrs. Ledbetter.
(b) Mrs. Logan.
(c) Mrs. Little.
(d) Mrs. Lang.

8. What was "mendy"?
(a) a native substance used as skin cream.
(b) a native salve for treating boils.
(c) a native substitute for sugar.
(d) a native pomade for dyeing hair black.

9. 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) native farmers who had joined themselves to the sepoys.
(d) several squadrons of lancers, trailing the green flag of Islam.

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

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

12. Lucy had the ingenious idea of hanging a kettle over the fire from the leg of what piece of furniture?
(a) a gothic love seat made rosewood.
(b) a Victorian chair of maple.
(c) a large gothic chair of oak.
(d) a Victorian sofa .

13. Chloe detects a sepoy, and because Fleury doesn't have his rifle with him, who ends up shooting the sepoy?
(a) Ram.
(b) the Magistrate.
(c) Harry.
(d) the Collector.

14. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?
(a) put a lot of lavendar toilet water on themselves.
(b) opened the windows to let in the fresh air.
(c) kept a small fire burning and occasionally burned camphor.
(d) sprinkled cinnamon around the room.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The Collector lives until what year?

5. What is used to help load the brass cannons?

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