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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 is a new arrival in the colony called?
(a) a griffin.
(b) an untested one.
(c) an ignoramus.
(d) a greenhorn.

2. What is the name of the Spaniel traveling with the new British arrivals in the colony?
(a) Chloe.
(b) Curly.
(c) Zoe.
(d) Bertha.

3. Who do Harry and Fleury set out into the town to rescue?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Dr. Dunstaple.
(c) Louise.
(d) Miriam.

4. Who disagrees with the Padre's view of God?
(a) Harry.
(b) Louise.
(c) Fleury.
(d) the Collector.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the British men describe the upbringing of rich natives?

2. In what part of India is Krishnapur located?

3. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?

4. Which of the men had invented a two-pronged spear, "the Eradicator"?

5. What did the Padre complain about that was being done in the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What smell awakens the Collector in the night?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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