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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 the Collector call the Great Exhibition?
(a) a Preposterous Affair.
(b) the Grand Fiasco.
(c) Prince Albert's Folly.
(d) the World's Vanity Fair.

2. Who dragged the O'Hanlons away when they fainted?
(a) Fleury.
(b) the Collector.
(c) Harry.
(d) Ram.

3. What was used to fan the O'Hanlons back to consciousness?
(a) the Illustrated Calcutta News.
(b) the Bible.
(c) the Illustrated London News.
(d) a poetry magazine.

4. What does Fleury find beautiful in the morning in Chapter 30?
(a) the sunrise over the river.
(b) the singing of prayers.
(c) flowers growing near the ramparts.
(d) Louise, his beloved.

5. Which of the women does Dr. McNab ask to care for the ailing Collector?
(a) Louise.
(b) Lucy.
(c) the Collector's eldest daughter.
(d) Miriam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Collector shout from the window while watching the siege?

2. Where did Fleury and the Collector meet in the late seventies?

3. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?

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

5. What sensible idea did Harry Dunstaple come up with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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