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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object was crucial to the morale of the garrison?
(a) the marble bust of Socrates
(b) the canon
(c) the Union Jack
(d) the Enfield rifle

2. Which of the women had a beautiful voice and sang "Oh God our help in ages past..."?
(a) Mrs, Dunstaple.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Louise.
(d) Miriam.

3. What does Dr. Dunstaple call Dr. McNab?
(a) the Quack.
(b) the Idiot.
(c) the Gravedigger.
(d) the Coroner.

4. What is Louise able to make for them to eat to celebrate Fleury's birthday?
(a) a pudding.
(b) some scones.
(c) a cake.
(d) some cookies.

5. Who did Fleury tease about her dimples to make Louise jealous?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Fanny.
(d) Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appears in one of the rooms of the palace to the embarrassment of Hari?

2. What animals had lived where Hari and the Prime Minister were now kept?

3. What do the Magistrate and the local people argue about?

4. What area do the British assign Major Hogan to defend?

5. What is the name of the Spaniel traveling with the new British arrivals in the colony?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who rides out to warn the Indigo farmers to join the others in the Residency and why?

2. What does Hari do to Fleury?

3. What new invention does the Collector contemplate using in the defense of the cantonment and what is it a forerunner of?

4. What worry about her brother does Louise confide in Miriam?

5. What smell awakens the Collector in the night?

6. What is the yearly disagreement between the Magistrate and the local farmers?

7. What are some of the Collector's beloved objects in his study?

8. What does the Padre do during this attack in Chapter 10?

9. What happens in the Collector's study when he returns there?

10. What had Dr. McNab done which particularly annoyed Dr. Dunstaple?

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