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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 does the Collector help the Padre do?
(a) dig graves.
(b) man the Enfield rifles.
(c) sermonize.
(d) load the canon with metal objects.

2. What were the names of the Collector's daughters who watched him through the telescope?
(a) Mary and Lisa.
(b) Eliza and Margaret.
(c) Grace and Elizabeth.
(d) Elizabeth and Martha.

3. What do the Collector and Miriam take a tour of?
(a) the opium factory.
(b) a local mosque.
(c) the local bazaar.
(d) the Maharajah's gardens.

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

5. What smell does the Collector awake to?
(a) the smell of someone cooking wild pig.
(b) the smell of rotting melons.
(c) the smell of jasmine growing outside his window.
(d) the smell of burning bungalows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes into labor at the end of Chapter 13?

2. The native Christians sat with their backs against what trees?

3. What do the Padre and Vokins do to help during the siege?

4. Who was Barlow?

5. Who was the only one paying attention as Harry explained how to shoot the rifles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury and what is the problem concerning the burial?

3. What is Hari interested in and what does he do to the Prime Minister to because of this interest?

4. What are the names of the Collector's eldest daughters and what do they do each day which annoys him?

5. What are some military procedures which Harry instructs his men in?

6. What happens to Harry in the bazaar on his journey to Krishnapur?

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. Whose birthday is celebrated in Chapter 16 and what does Louise make as a present?

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

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