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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Padre complain about that was being done in the church?

2. The native Christians sat with their backs against what trees?

3. Who had formed the habit of sleeping clasped in each other's arms?

4. What is a daguerreotype?

5. What did the Collector allow to remain standing near the cantonment ramparts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who rides out to warn the Indigo farmers to join the others in the Residency and why?

2. What smell awakens the Collector in the night?

3. What does Hari do to Fleury?

4. What happens in the Collector's study when he returns there?

5. What are the names of the Collector's eldest daughters and what do they do each day which annoys him?

6. What happens when the enemy attacks swarming from the melon beds?

7. What are some of the Collector's beloved objects in his study?

8. What animals are lying in the shadows of the church?

9. What is Hari interested in and what does he do to the Prime Minister to because of this interest?

10. What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury and what is the problem concerning the burial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Fleury's and his sister, Louise's time in Calcutta before they continue on to Krishnapur. What is the social scene like in Calcutta?

2) What happens to Harry in the bazaar on his way to Krishnapur?

3) What is Harry afraid of ? What frightens Fleury?

Choose two of the three questions to answer.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the plain the travelers to Krishnapur pass through. What are the landscape, the buildings, and the animals like?

2) Describe the Krishnapur Poetry Society. How are the women and their poetry treated by the Magistrate? The Collector?

3) What makes the Collector suspect future danger for the cantonment and what does he do about it?

Choose two of the three topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe three desperate measures taken to obtain food at the end of August.

2) What does Fleury do to celebrate Louise birthday?

3) What are some of the horrible physical problems Louise faces near the end of the siege?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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