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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 Lucy want to eat?
(a) fruit and cheese.
(b) scones.
(c) tea cakes.
(d) vegetables and meat.

2. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?
(a) sprinkled cinnamon around the room.
(b) opened the windows to let in the fresh air.
(c) kept a small fire burning and occasionally burned camphor.
(d) put a lot of lavendar toilet water on themselves.

3. What did the young men find disturbing about Lucy's naked body?
(a) her pubic hair.
(b) the whiteness of her skin.
(c) her vulnerability.
(d) the impropriety of her nakedness.

4. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?
(a) His eye becomes more inflamed and he becomes ill.
(b) He declares his love for Miriam.
(c) He becomes closer to his children.
(d) He and the Padre finally become close friends.

5. What finally kills the sepoy whom Fleury tried to strangle with a violin string?
(a) Harry shoots him.
(b) Fleury's sabre.
(c) Rayne drives a bayonet through him.
(d) the heavy pistol that had formerly not fired.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Louise suffering from?

2. What ration of food does each person receive?

3. How does Fleury confuse the sepoys?

4. What is Lucy talented at making?

5. What does Dr. McNab think causes cholera?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Fleury hear in the morning which he finds beautiful? What is Ram's comment on this and Fleury's thought about it?

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

4. What three characters in the novel die in Chapter 18?

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

6. What happens to Harry and Fleury years after the siege?

7. What is wrong with the Collector's health in Chapter 19?

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

9. Two babies are born in early August; which one survives and what is she named?

10. What happens to Ford in Chapter 30 and what falls on the Collector?

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