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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beliefs does the Padre expound upon?

2. How did Abdallah try to cheer up the Magistrate?

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

4. What do Louise and Miriam banter about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Dr. McNab done which particularly annoyed Dr. Dunstaple?

2. What happens in the Collector's study when he returns there?

3. What does the Padre do during this attack in Chapter 10?

4. What smell awakens the Collector in the night?

5. Whose birthday is celebrated in Chapter 16 and what does Louise make as a present?

6. What new invention does the Collector contemplate using in the defense of the cantonment and what is it a forerunner of?

7. What are the names of the Collector's eldest daughters and what do they do each day which annoys him?

8. Who rides out to warn the Indigo farmers to join the others in the Residency and why?

9. How does the Maharajah's son, Hari, put on a show of being British?

10. What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury and what is the problem concerning the burial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the Maharajah and his palace.

2) Describe Hari, the Maharajah's son, his show of being like the British. Tell what he does to Fleury.

3) Describe the dispute the Magistrate and the local farmers have over how to deal with the river's flooding. What does each propose is the

best solution?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the plain the travelers to Krishnapur pass through. What are the landscape, the buildings, and the animals like?

2) Describe the Krishnapur Poetry Society. How are the women and their poetry treated by the Magistrate? The Collector?

3) What makes the Collector suspect future danger for the cantonment and what does he do about it?

Choose two of the three topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the physical problems the Collector gets that make him turn over temporary authority to the Magistrate.

2) What is the blinding "snow" which rains from the sky and what good effect does it have?

3) Fleury goes to the Collector's room and thinks he has cholera. What does Dr. McNab tell him the Collector is suffering from.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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