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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 Collector shout from the window while watching the siege?
(a) Charge men, charge the sepoys!
(b) Man the canons, soldiers!
(c) Let us have tea on the lawn again!
(d) Long live Britain, long live the Queen!

2. Lucy had the ingenious idea of hanging a kettle over the fire from the leg of what piece of furniture?
(a) a Victorian sofa .
(b) a Victorian chair of maple.
(c) a large gothic chair of oak.
(d) a gothic love seat made rosewood.

3. What is the name given to the surviving infant?
(a) Hope.
(b) Faith.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Charity.

4. What was used to fan the O'Hanlons back to consciousness?
(a) the Bible.
(b) the Illustrated Calcutta News.
(c) the Illustrated London News.
(d) a poetry magazine.

5. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?
(a) perform funerals.
(b) pray individually with the dying.
(c) hold church services.
(d) keep his faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?

2. Which psalm does the Padre read for the christening of the baby?

3. What sensible idea did Harry Dunstaple come up with?

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

5. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens to Ford in Chapter 30 and what falls on the Collector?

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

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

9. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

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

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