View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?
(a) another two or three weeks.
(b) about a week.
(c) another two or three days.
(d) another month or two.

2. Fleury was composing a poem about whom in Chapter 20?
(a) Louise.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Mary Porter.
(d) the Collector.

3. How did Dr. McNab treat the Collector's inflamed eye?
(a) released the pus by an incision in the eyelid.
(b) washed his eye out with witch hazel.
(c) put a cold compress of tea on his eye.
(d) put soothing drops in his eye.

4. What does the Collector eat at the end of Chapter 29?
(a) a handful of dal.
(b) a black beetle.
(c) an ant.
(d) a chapatis.

5. What child died of a sunstroke?
(a) Liza Porter.
(b) Mary Potter.
(c) Mary Ann Potts.
(d) Mary Painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dragged the O'Hanlons away when they fainted?

2. Where is the Collector during the attack by the sepoys in Chapter 30?

3. What disease did Fleury think the Collector had when he visited him?

4. The Collector opens Hari's phrenology book to the section on what subject?

5. The Collector lives until what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is wrong with the Collector's health in Chapter 19?

2. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

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

4. Why was the Magistrate fascinated with the back of Lucy's neck?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 553 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample