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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 happened to cause the sepoy attack to be repulsed?
(a) Native Christians, Eurasians and Sikhs helped the British.
(b) Paperwork from the Cutcherry rained from the sky like snow.
(c) The monsoon rains began, blinding the sepoys.
(d) The superior weaponery of the British prevailed.

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

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

4. What shocked the Collector when he looked in the mirror?
(a) His face was covered with red boils.
(b) His teeth were very dark brown.
(c) His beard was sprouting red hairs.
(d) Much of his hair had fallen out.

5. How does Fleury confuse the sepoys?
(a) by pouring water on them.
(b) by twirling his sabre around quickly.
(c) by shouting orders in the vernacular.
(d) by throwing a blanket over them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Collector in Chapter 19?

2. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

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

6. 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?

7. What is the seeming snow from the sky which causes confusion to the enemy and allows the men to reload their cannons?

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

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

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

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