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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. Who dies, considered by the British and native defenders alike to be a hero?
(a) Lieutenant Barkley.
(b) Lieutenant Cosgrove.
(c) Lieutenant Hargreaves.
(d) Lieutenant Cutter.

2. Which psalm does the Padre read for the christening of the baby?
(a) the 91st Psalm.
(b) the 116th Psalm.
(c) the 119th Psalm.
(d) the 23rd Psalm.

3. When the Collector gets old he rarely stirs from his club located where?
(a) in Picadilly.
(b) in St. James.
(c) in St. Georges.
(d) in St. Marks.

4. Who took over the Commissariat from Mr. Rayne?
(a) Mr. Schleissner..
(b) Mr. Rose.
(c) Mr. Ford.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

5. What was Louise suffering from?
(a) chicken pox.
(b) scurvy.
(c) typhoid fever.
(d) cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lucy had the ingenious idea of hanging a kettle over the fire from the leg of what piece of furniture?

2. What people were assumed to be immune to cholera?

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

4. What is Lucy talented at making?

5. What was the noise Miriam heard when she returned to the Collector's bedside?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who arrives at the Residency to announce the rescue and what does he find?

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

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

6. What are some of the desperate measures the people take to obtain food?

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

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

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

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

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