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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. Who were the dhobi?
(a) native Christians.
(b) Indians who washed the clothes of the British.
(c) the Eurasians.
(d) waterbuffalo.

2. What is another name for Mr. Hopkins?
(a) the Collector.
(b) the Administrator.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) the First Lieutenant.

3. What had been planned militarily for Tuesday, July 7th?
(a) reinforcing the ramparts of the Residency.
(b) a surprise attack with canon against the sepoys.
(c) springing Cutter's mine beneath the sepoy positions.
(d) dispersing the watching native crowd with canon shot.

4. Who was in charge of the Commissariat?
(a) the Magistrate.
(b) Mr. Rayne.
(c) Harry.
(d) the Collector.

5. Who goes into labor at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Mrs. Barlow.
(b) Mrs. Dunstaple.
(c) Mrs. Scott.
(d) Mrs. Vokins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harry afraid of?

2. Who had the Ten Commandments translated into the vernacular and chiseled in stones by the roadside?

3. The Collector oversleeps in the beginning of Chapter 10 but who made the round of the defenses in his place?

4. Who was Jackson?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hari do to Fleury?

2. What did the Padre complain about?

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

4. What kind of father is the Collector? Give examples.

5. What animals are lying in the shadows of the church?

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

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

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

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

10. How does the Maharajah's son, Hari, put on a show of being British?

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