2. What is Ghosh doing as Sister Mary Praise is dying?
(a) Dangerously ill.
(b) Walking leisurely around the hospital grounds.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Teaching a class.

3. What does the Emperor ask Matron?
(a) If the Matron would care for his daughter who is ill.
(b) If Sister Mary Praise needs a burial plot.
(c) If anyone at Missing has treated an army general.
(d) If Thomas Stone could come see the Emperor as soon as possible.

4. How do others react to a barefoot girl being slowly led to the hospital by her father?
(a) They try to help the father.
(b) They faint.
(c) They cover their noses and move away.
(d) They make mean remarks.

5. What game do Shiva, Marion and Genet play regularly?
(a) Blind Man's Bluff.
(b) Chutes and ladders.
(c) Hopscotch.
(d) Hide and seek.

6. In what physical condition are the twins?
(a) They are healthy and wailing.
(b) They are bleeding.
(c) Neither are breathing.
(d) They are about right for twins.

7. Why does Ghosh attach an anklet to Shiva?
(a) To identify him.
(b) To wake him when he stops breathing.
(c) To abuse Shiva.
(d) To offset Shiva's unbalanced chi.

8. What happens to the soldier who points the gun at Genet?
(a) It is not written.
(b) He takes Shiva with him to the palace.
(c) He dies.
(d) He is arrested.

9. What does Hema think about what is yelled at her?
(a) She can hardly believe what is said.
(b) She thought Dr. Patlet was on vacation.
(c) She is happy because she did not eat on the flight.
(d) She thinks the fire department should be called.

10. Who yells at Hema when she arrives back at Missing?
(a) Mary Praise.
(b) Jackon.
(c) Gebrew.
(d) Nabor.

11. What happens to many of the passengers on the ship Mary Praise takes to Africa?
(a) They get food poisoning.
(b) They come down with a fever.
(c) They drink bad water.
(d) They become sea sick.

12. What does Shiva do for Zemui?
(a) Gives him his best color set.
(b) Translate letters for Zemui.
(c) Gives him reading lessons.
(d) Paints a picture of Zemui's wife.

13. According to Marion, what will Shiva do when he's ready?
(a) Sing.
(b) Make friends.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Talk.

14. What happens when Shiva is six?
(a) He stops talking.
(b) He has a bad fall.
(c) He gets lost in the jungle.
(d) He becomes ill and in a coma.

15. What news does Almaz give Ghosh?
(a) Hema has been killed in a plane crash.
(b) Sister Mary is ill with African sleeping sickness.
(c) Sister Mary is dead.
(d) Hema married her third cousin.