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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 does Dr. McNab think causes cholera?
(a) rice water.
(b) spoiled, infected food.
(c) infected mosquitoes.
(d) filth and lack of hygiene.

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

3. What was the other name the dead lieutenant was known by?
(a) Foxlett.
(b) Springer.
(c) Warfield.
(d) Sharpshooter.

4. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?
(a) the Bible.
(b) a card with their preferred doctor written on it.
(c) their Last Will and Testament.
(d) their Birth Certificate.

5. What did the Collector shout from the window while watching the siege?
(a) Charge men, charge the sepoys!
(b) Long live Britain, long live the Queen!
(c) Let us have tea on the lawn again!
(d) Man the canons, soldiers!

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fleury was composing a poem about whom in Chapter 20?

3. What did the Collector call the Great Exhibition?

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

5. What was "mendy"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does each person carry with him or her during the cholera epidemic?

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

7. What happens on September 12th and why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?

8. Why was the Magistrate fascinated with the back of Lucy's neck?

9. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

10. Describe the incident of Ram, the sepoy , Fleury and Chloe in Chapter 27.

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