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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. Whom did Mr. Ford notice among the returning sepoys?
(a) the armies of several maharajahs.
(b) several squadrons of lancers, trailing the green flag of Islam.
(c) several groups of defecting Eurasians and native Christians.
(d) native farmers who had joined themselves to the sepoys.

2. What did the ladies battle over in the auction?
(a) a fine tooth comb to remove lice.
(b) tea.
(c) lavendar toilet water.
(d) sugar.

3. What does the Collector discuss with the Padre in the beginning of Chapter 31?
(a) original Sin.
(b) death.
(c) the Great Exhibition.
(d) the fate of the garrison.

4. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?
(a) ladies who are voluptuous.
(b) ladies who succumb to sleep in his presence.
(c) ladies who speak up to him.
(d) married ladies.

5. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?
(a) Union Jack.
(b) black.
(c) white.
(d) red..

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to help load the brass cannons?

2. What happened to cause the sepoy attack to be repulsed?

3. What do so-called amative characteristics exemplify according to phrenology?

4. What is Lucy talented at making?

5. How did Dr. McNab treat the Collector's inflamed eye?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to the Collector's leather goods and clothing and notepaper?

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

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

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

5. At the end of Chapter 29 what does the Collector read about in the phrenology book and what does he eat on the way downstairs?

6. What is the seeming snow from the sky which causes confusion to the enemy and allows the men to reload their cannons?

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

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

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

10. What is the Collector sitting on and what is he discussing with the Padre in Chapter 31?

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