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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Dunstaple makes fun of what native practice that Dr. McNab uses?
(a) bee pollen for the skin.
(b) ants as stitches.
(c) rubbing mud into wounds.
(d) leeches.

2. What topic does the Magistrate lecture about?
(a) phrenology.
(b) The Great Exhibition in London.
(c) pariah dogs.
(d) poetry.

3. What did the Collector allow to remain standing near the cantonment ramparts?
(a) a mosque.
(b) the statue of a Hindu god.
(c) a Hindu temple.
(d) an opium factory.

4. What did the Padre complain about that was being done in the church?
(a) the use of the church for the poetry club.
(b) letting animals take shelter there.
(c) the use of the church as a hospital.
(d) the storing of grain and powder at the back of the church.

5. What were the names of the Collector's daughters who watched him through the telescope?
(a) Elizabeth and Martha.
(b) Eliza and Margaret.
(c) Grace and Elizabeth.
(d) Mary and Lisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What one person besides the poorest natives in Krishnapur ate the melons?

2. The Collector mused about the qualities of what insects at the beginning of Chapter 8?

3. What were some physical characteristics of Lucy?

4. How do the British men describe the upbringing of rich natives?

5. Who goes into labor at the end of Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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