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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, besides Fleury, was affected deeply by the young orphan girl's death?
(a) the Collector.
(b) Harry.
(c) Dr. McNab.
(d) Dr. Dunstaple.

2. Who shoots himself while lying in bed?
(a) a young clerk from the Postal Office.
(b) Vokins.
(c) one of the Schleissner brothers.
(d) one of the young soldiers.

3. What do the Sikhs refuse to do?
(a) use pistols, preferring sabres.
(b) listen to the Padre's endless sermons.
(c) drink from the same water as the Europeans.
(d) eat the same food as the Europeans.

4. What fascinates the Magistrate about Lucy?
(a) her statuesque figure.
(b) her breasts.
(c) her popularity with the men.
(d) the back of her head.

5. What do so-called amative characteristics exemplify according to phrenology?
(a) characteristics of romantic love.
(b) characteristics of a poetic nature.
(c) characteristics of goodwill to mankind.
(d) characteristics of sexual love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. McNab say the Collector suffered from?

2. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?

3. What did Fleury buy from one of the artillery women for ten pounds?

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

5. Which psalm does the Padre read for the christening of the baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What ingenious idea does Harry come up with to deal with the thick vegetation encroaching on the edges of the defenses?

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

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