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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fleury confuse the sepoys?
(a) by twirling his sabre around quickly.
(b) by pouring water on them.
(c) by throwing a blanket over them.
(d) by shouting orders in the vernacular.

2. What change had come over Lucy since the cockchafer episode?
(a) She had become placid as a Madonna.
(b) She wanted more than ever to commit suicide.
(c) She had become more demanding of attention.
(d) She became nasty to everyone for no reason.

3. Who is the mother of the baby who is born and survives in Chapter 23?
(a) Mrs. Bennett.
(b) Mrs. Wright.
(c) Mrs. White.
(d) Mrs. Browning.

4. What is Dr. Dunstaple supposed to have died from?
(a) malaria.
(b) a heart attack.
(c) pneumonia.
(d) scarlet fever.

5. What was the noise Miriam heard when she returned to the Collector's bedside?
(a) gun shot.
(b) frogs.
(c) canon fire.
(d) rain.

6. What people were assumed to be immune to cholera?
(a) Hindus.
(b) Moslems.
(c) Jews.
(d) Chinese.

7. Fleury barters precious belongings in exchange for what for Louise's birthday?
(a) chapatis.
(b) extra flour.
(c) sugar biscuits.
(d) two lumps of sugar.

8. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?
(a) opened the windows to let in the fresh air.
(b) put a lot of lavendar toilet water on themselves.
(c) sprinkled cinnamon around the room.
(d) kept a small fire burning and occasionally burned camphor.

9. What finally kills the sepoy whom Fleury tried to strangle with a violin string?
(a) the heavy pistol that had formerly not fired.
(b) Harry shoots him.
(c) Rayne drives a bayonet through him.
(d) Fleury's sabre.

10. What were the holes dug slant-wise in the ground and filled with powder and stones called?
(a) foupoudres.
(b) foudeterres.
(c) foumunitions.
(d) fougasses.

11. Where is the Collector during the attack by the sepoys in Chapter 30?
(a) in the drawing room.
(b) at the top of the stairs in the banquet hall.
(c) on the roof.
(d) in his studio loading his pistols.

12. Chloe detects a sepoy, and because Fleury doesn't have his rifle with him, who ends up shooting the sepoy?
(a) Ram.
(b) Harry.
(c) the Magistrate.
(d) the Collector.

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

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

15. What ration of food does each person receive?
(a) a handful of dal and flour.
(b) a dry crust of bread.
(c) a chapatis and a lump of sugar.
(d) a small piece of meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Collector shout from the window while watching the siege?

2. What was the other name the dead lieutenant was known by?

3. Why does Fleury order Chloe killed?

4. Who became cold to Lucy after the cockchafer episode?

5. What disease did Fleury think the Collector had when he visited him?

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