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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 did the frog do in the Sanskrit poem the Collector remembers?
(a) sang all night long.
(b) buried itself in the cool mud.
(c) reclined beneath the hood of the cobra.
(d) took itself to the refuge of the river during the hot spell.

2. What one person besides the poorest natives in Krishnapur ate the melons?
(a) the Collector.
(b) the Magistrate.
(c) Harry.
(d) Lieutenant Cutter.

3. What were the two fat Sikhs chewing in this chapter?
(a) pan.
(b) Kabul grapes.
(c) chapatis.
(d) tobacco.

4. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) the Collector.
(b) Dr. McNab.
(c) the general.
(d) the Magistrate.

5. Who was the only one paying attention as Harry explained how to shoot the rifles?
(a) Barlow.
(b) Fleury.
(c) the Collector.
(d) the Padre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the dhobi?

2. What does the Magistrate decide to do for the native Christians during the expected siege?

3. What had been planned militarily for Tuesday, July 7th?

4. What does the Collector help the Padre do?

5. Who was Jackson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Hari kept and what does he say he'll never do?

2. What does the Padre ask the Sunday School children to do?

3. What new technology does the Collector contemplate and why?

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

5. What are some of the wonders of nature which the Padre mentions while extolling God?

6. What is the plan Cutter puts into action on July 7th?

7. What does Hari do to Fleury?

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

9. What happens when the enemy attacks swarming from the melon beds?

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

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