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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 Miriam speak of which shocked Louise?
(a) the boils the women were getting.
(b) the possibility of the women being raped during the siege.
(c) Mr. Hopkin's natural functions.
(d) the smell of urine.

2. Which of the women does Dr. McNab ask to care for the ailing Collector?
(a) the Collector's eldest daughter.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Louise.

3. Why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?
(a) There aren't enough armed British to destroy the cache.
(b) The canons no longer work.
(c) It's just out of reach.
(d) They've run out of enough ammunition.

4. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?
(a) another two or three weeks.
(b) another month or two.
(c) about a week.
(d) another two or three days.

5. What does the Collector eat at the end of Chapter 29?
(a) an ant.
(b) a black beetle.
(c) a handful of dal.
(d) a chapatis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ration of food does each person receive?

2. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?

3. What has happened to Hari during his confinement in the tiger house?

4. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?

5. Who became cold to Lucy after the cockchafer episode?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

2. What does Lucy begin to do to cheer herself up?

3. What does the Collector do when he returns to London?

4. What desperate measure do the people take out of extreme hunger?

5. What does Dr. McNab refer to as having been successful in the treatment of cholera which alarms the onlookers?

6. What table is used for the altar for the Wright baby's Baptism?

7. Who does Dr. McNab ask to look after the Collector and what transpires during that time?

8. When Fleury visits the Collector he thinks he has cholera but what does Dr. McNab say the Collector has?

9. What does Fleury do for Louise's birthday?

10. What condition does the Collector find Hari in when he visits him in the tiger house?

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