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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?
(a) They had a painful sting.
(b) They lent a sickening odor to anything they touched.
(c) They devoured any food in sight.
(d) They made a very loud buzzing sound.

3. Why did the Collector sit for a long time contemplating his boots?
(a) The laces were missing.
(b) They were falling apart and couldn't be worn.
(c) They were covered with green mold.
(d) They sorely needed polishing.

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

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

6. What fascinates the Magistrate about Lucy?
(a) her statuesque figure.
(b) the back of her head.
(c) her popularity with the men.
(d) her breasts.

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

8. What does Hari give the Collector as a parting gift when he is freed?
(a) a poem he had written during his confinement.
(b) a peacock feather.
(c) his book on phrenology.
(d) a silk handkerchief.

9. What happened to cause the sepoy attack to be repulsed?
(a) Paperwork from the Cutcherry rained from the sky like snow.
(b) The monsoon rains began, blinding the sepoys.
(c) The superior weaponery of the British prevailed.
(d) Native Christians, Eurasians and Sikhs helped the British.

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

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

12. Why did the Collector go to the roof of the banqueting hall?
(a) to get some much needed fresh air.
(b) to survey the cantonment.
(c) to be alone with his thoughts.
(d) to have a look at the river.

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

14. Who shoots himself while lying in bed?
(a) one of the young soldiers.
(b) a young clerk from the Postal Office.
(c) one of the Schleissner brothers.
(d) Vokins.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Fleury find beautiful in the morning in Chapter 30?

3. When the Collector gets old he rarely stirs from his club located where?

4. What did Dr. McNab say the Collector suffered from?

5. Fleury barters precious belongings in exchange for what for Louise's birthday?

(see the answer keys)

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