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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?
(a) the lack of attention of the people he read to.
(b) the thick quantity of flies crawling on the pages.
(c) his wandering thoughts.
(d) his weakened physical condition.

2. The two giant marble busts that Harry dragged to each side of the cannon were of whom?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Aristotle and Homer.
(c) Voltaire and Baudelaire.
(d) Shakespeare and Hugo.

3. What was the physical manifestation of the Collector's grieving mind?
(a) the piles of British possessions in the billiard room.
(b) the graves he digs.
(c) the burned out bungalows.
(d) his shattered and dissheveled bedroom.

4. How does Dr. Dunstaple say cholera is transmitted?
(a) through blood transfusions.
(b) by rice water.
(c) by damp air.
(d) by kissing.

5. Which of the corpses should be buried in a different area than the others?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Peterson.
(c) Donnelly.
(d) Peterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Collector oversleeps in the beginning of Chapter 10 but who made the round of the defenses in his place?

2. What kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?

3. What do the community members keep with them at all times during the cholera epidemic?

4. What wasn't the priest able to do because of the many people dying of cholera?

5. What did the other ladies of the Residency resent regarding Lucy?

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