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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ladies is the Collector attracted to?
(a) ladies who are voluptuous.
(b) married ladies.
(c) ladies who succumb to sleep in his presence.
(d) ladies who speak up to him.

2. What was the other name the dead lieutenant was known by?
(a) Warfield.
(b) Springer.
(c) Sharpshooter.
(d) Foxlett.

3. What did the Padre dream about when he was asleep?
(a) that the ravens were coming to feed him.
(b) that he had finally saved the people from Sin.
(c) that he was a lost sheep found by a shepherd.
(d) that Jesus would feed them as he did the mulititudes.

4. The Collector opens Hari's phrenology book to the section on what subject?
(a) charity.
(b) faith.
(c) sexuality.
(d) hope.

5. Who is made the godfather of the child?
(a) the Magistrate.
(b) Harry.
(c) the Collector.
(d) Dr. Dunstaple.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What insects does Fleury observe in the banqueting hall in Chapter 27?

3. Chloe detects a sepoy, and because Fleury doesn't have his rifle with him, who ends up shooting the sepoy?

4. Who shoots himself while lying in bed?

5. How did the ladies in the billiards room try to cover the horrible odor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fleury hear in the morning which he finds beautiful? What is Ram's comment on this and Fleury's thought about it?

2. Two babies are born in early August; which one survives and what is she named?

3. At the end of Chapter 29 what does the Collector read about in the phrenology book and what does he eat on the way downstairs?

4. What desperate measure do the people take out of extreme hunger?

5. What happens on September 12th and why can't the British destroy the enemy's magazine cache?

6. Who does Dr. McNab ask to look after the Collector and what transpires during that time?

7. What happens to Harry and Fleury years after the siege?

8. What does Rayne, who is in charge of the Commissariat, do to enrage the Collector?

9. What does Fleury do for Louise's birthday?

10. When Fleury visits the Collector he thinks he has cholera but what does Dr. McNab say the Collector has?

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