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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Fleury confuse the sepoys?
(a) by twirling his sabre around quickly.
(b) by throwing a blanket over them.
(c) by pouring water on them.
(d) by shouting orders in the vernacular.
2. What shocked the Collector when he looked in the mirror?
(a) His teeth were very dark brown.
(b) His beard was sprouting red hairs.
(c) His face was covered with red boils.
(d) Much of his hair had fallen out.
3. 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) sprinkled cinnamon around the room.
(d) kept a small fire burning and occasionally burned camphor.
4. Which psalm does the Padre read for the christening of the baby?
(a) the 119th Psalm.
(b) the 91st Psalm.
(c) the 23rd Psalm.
(d) the 116th Psalm.
5. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?
(a) ladies who speak up to him.
(b) ladies who are voluptuous.
(c) married ladies.
(d) ladies who succumb to sleep in his presence.
6. What was Miriam's married name?
(a) Mrs. Logan.
(b) Mrs. Ledbetter.
(c) Mrs. Little.
(d) Mrs. Lang.
7. Where did Fleury and the Collector meet in the late seventies?
(a) Barclay Square.
(b) St. James.
(c) Pall Mall.
(d) Hyde Park.
8. What is Dr. Dunstaple supposed to have died from?
(a) pneumonia.
(b) malaria.
(c) a heart attack.
(d) scarlet fever.
9. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?
(a) by kissing.
(b) through blood transfusions.
(c) by damp air.
(d) by rice water.
10. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?
(a) a silk handkerchief.
(b) a small jar of honey.
(c) a small piece of horse meat.
(d) a teaspoonful of tea.
11. What do the Sikhs refuse to do?
(a) eat the same food as the Europeans.
(b) use pistols, preferring sabres.
(c) listen to the Padre's endless sermons.
(d) drink from the same water as the Europeans.
12. Why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?
(a) They've run out of enough ammunition.
(b) There aren't enough armed British to destroy the cache.
(c) It's just out of reach.
(d) The canons no longer work.
13. Whom did Mr. Ford notice among the returning sepoys?
(a) native farmers who had joined themselves to the sepoys.
(b) the armies of several maharajahs.
(c) several squadrons of lancers, trailing the green flag of Islam.
(d) several groups of defecting Eurasians and native Christians.
14. What does the Collector do when he returns to London?
(a) He cancels all memberships in societes he used to belong to.
(b) He volunteers at the hospital.
(c) He marries an English noblewoman.
(d) He makes speeches about his time in India.
15. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?
(a) foupoudres.
(b) foudeterres.
(c) foumunitions.
(d) fougasses.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do so-called amative characteristics exemplify according to phrenology?
2. Who is Hookum Singh?
3. Chloe detects a sepoy, and because Fleury doesn't have his rifle with him, who ends up shooting the sepoy?
4. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?
5. The woman who bears the surviving infant is whose widow?
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