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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 shot sparrows and made a curry from them?
(a) Mr. Simmons.
(b) Mr. Rayne.
(c) Mr. Ford.
(d) Mr. Worseley.

2. What was one of the characteristics of the black bugs called cockchafers?
(a) They made a very loud buzzing sound.
(b) They devoured any food in sight.
(c) They lent a sickening odor to anything they touched.
(d) They had a painful sting.

3. What does Hari give the Collector as a parting gift when he is freed?
(a) a peacock feather.
(b) a poem he had written during his confinement.
(c) his book on phrenology.
(d) a silk handkerchief.

4. What is Dr. Dunstaple supposed to have died from?
(a) a heart attack.
(b) pneumonia.
(c) scarlet fever.
(d) malaria.

5. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?
(a) kept a small fire burning and occasionally burned camphor.
(b) opened the windows to let in the fresh air.
(c) put a lot of lavendar toilet water on themselves.
(d) sprinkled cinnamon around the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Fleury and Louise?

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

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

4. When the Collector gets old he rarely stirs from his club located where?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. What does Rayne, who is in charge of the Commissariat, do to enrage the Collector?

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

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

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

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

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