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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. Miriam was called away from the Collector''s bedside to assist Dr. McNab in what kind of operation?

2. What ration of food does each person receive?

3. What was bothering the Padre as he read aloud from the Bible?

4. Fleury was composing a poem about whom in Chapter 20?

5. What kind of treatment mentioned by Dr. McNab alarms the crowd?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. McNab refer to as having been successful in the treatment of cholera which alarms the onlookers?

2. What are some of the desperate measures the people take to obtain food?

3. What ingenious idea does Harry come up with to deal with the thick vegetation encroaching on the edges of the defenses?

4. What does the collector do when he finds out what Rayne has been up to?

5. What is the seeming snow from the sky which causes confusion to the enemy and allows the men to reload their cannons?

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

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

8. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

9. What does each person carry with him or her during the cholera epidemic?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the relationship of the Collector with his daughters. What is your opinion of him as a father?

2) Describe the situation of the ladies in the billiard room. How do they interact? How does the Collector view them when he visits the billiard room?

3) Describe Fleury's character. Do you find his poetic musings and views on religion sympathetic? Is he perhaps the most sensitive of the men considering his sympathy and interest in the Indians.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

1) What are the two options presented in the novel concerning the distribution of food and rations . Which do you think is the better option?

2) How do Hari and how do the Magistrate attempt to prove the validity of phrenology. Whom do they choose to use in their experiments and

why?

3) How does Hari change during his confinement in the tiger house? Do you think it was moral to keep him there?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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