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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louise sew for Fleury for his birthday present?
(a) a white shirt
(b) a red vest.
(c) blue trousers..
(d) a green coat.

2. Who do Harry and Fleury go back to try and save?
(a) Michael Schleissner .
(b) Lieutenant Peterson.
(c) Mr. Rose.
(d) Mr. Simmons.

3. What do the Padre and Vokins do to help during the siege?
(a) gather metal objects for the cannon.
(b) sponge.
(c) serve the ammunition.
(d) man the rifles.

4. What appears in one of the rooms of the palace to the embarrassment of Hari?
(a) an escaped cow.
(b) a large spider.
(c) a monkey.
(d) a local prostitute.

5. What did the other ladies of the Residency resent regarding Lucy?
(a) that she was prettier than they were.
(b) that she was better educated.
(c) that she was allowed to sleep in the Billiard room.
(d) that she wore such scant clothing.

6. What did Dr. Dunstaple look like?
(a) fat, his legs looking too short for his round body.
(b) thin and intellectual.
(c) medium-build, with an athletic body.
(d) large and imposing.

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

8. What are Barlow and Mohammed ordered to do?
(a) protect the women.
(b) take up sponge and ramrod.
(c) take up positions on the veranda with rifles.
(d) load the cannon.

9. What is George Fleury's sister's name?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Louise.
(c) Helen.
(d) Lucy.

10. Where was there a massacre when the Magistrate was visiting the farmers and discussing the flooding of the river?
(a) the Punjab.
(b) Delhi.
(c) Calcutta.
(d) Captainganj.

11. Who was in charge of the Commissariat?
(a) the Collector.
(b) Harry.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) Mr. Rayne.

12. What do the Collector and Miriam take a tour of?
(a) the opium factory.
(b) the Maharajah's gardens.
(c) a local mosque.
(d) the local bazaar.

13. Who was the only one paying attention as Harry explained how to shoot the rifles?
(a) the Padre.
(b) Fleury.
(c) the Collector.
(d) Barlow.

14. What did Hari , the Maharajah's son, sit on?
(a) a chair made completely of antlers.
(b) silk pillows.
(c) a throne embedded with precious gems.
(d) a marble throne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What smell does the Collector awake to?

2. What was the name of the Padre's mother?

3. Who arrives wounded in Part 1, Chapter 6?

4. What was the name of the Collector's beloved, deceased dog?

5. What happens when the Collector is once more alone in his study after he has made the rounds?

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