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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 kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?
(a) blood letting.
(b) Hindu sacrifice of animals.
(c) Chinese acupuncture.
(d) voodoo.

2. 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.

3. What did Dr. McNab say the Collector suffered from?
(a) dysentery.
(b) erysipelas.
(c) cholera.
(d) scarlet fever.

4. Where did Fleury and the Collector meet in the late seventies?
(a) Hyde Park.
(b) Barclay Square.
(c) Pall Mall.
(d) St. James.

5. What ration of food does each person receive?
(a) a small piece of meat.
(b) a handful of dal and flour.
(c) a dry crust of bread.
(d) a chapatis and a lump of sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?

2. Miriam was called away from the Collector''s bedside to assist Dr. McNab in what kind of operation?

3. What does Dr. McNab think causes cholera?

4. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?

5. What did the Collector call the Great Exhibition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

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

3. What does the collector do when he finds out what Rayne has been up to?

4. What three characters in the novel die in Chapter 18?

5. What table is used for the altar for the Wright baby's Baptism?

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

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

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

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

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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