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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 young men find disturbing about Lucy's naked body?
(a) the whiteness of her skin.
(b) the impropriety of her nakedness.
(c) her vulnerability.
(d) her pubic hair.

2. The Collector lives until what year?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1890.

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

4. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?
(a) foupoudres.
(b) fougasses.
(c) foudeterres.
(d) foumunitions.

5. What happened to Fleury and Louise?
(a) They married each other and had a number of children.
(b) They parted and married other people.
(c) Louise married a barrister and Fleury remained single.
(d) They both remained single for the rest of their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hari give the Collector as a parting gift when he is freed?

2. Who is Hookum Singh?

3. The woman who bears the surviving infant is whose widow?

4. Where did the ladies stoutly refuse to move to when they were asked to leave the billiard room?

5. What did Miriam speak of which shocked Louise?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to Harry and Fleury years after the siege?

8. 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?

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

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

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