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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ghosh perform surgery on Mebratu?
(a) For practice.
(b) He refuses to perform surgery.
(c) In hopes of receiving favor.
(d) In compassion.

2. What is Almaz doing as Ghosh encounters her?
(a) Crying.
(b) Washing laundry.
(c) Scrubbing the floor.
(d) Cooking.

3. Who is John Melly?
(a) The only Westerner involved in the overthrow of the Emperor.
(b) Matron's brother.
(c) The only woman Matron has ever loved.
(d) The head of the Roman Catholic church in the country.

4. What does Hema say to Stone?
(a) He will have to quit the hospital.
(b) He needs to get himself together.
(c) She is charging him with murder.
(d) He killed Mary and the twins are his children.

5. For what purpose has Eli's church been sending Matron money?
(a) To research the prevalence of STD's in Ethiopia.
(b) For a new village well.
(c) To fund a new school building.
(d) For an educational progarm about STD's.

6. What does Hema realize about the twins?
(a) They are connected at the head by a small tube.
(b) They are too large.
(c) They are identical.
(d) They are too small.

7. What is yelled at Hema?
(a) Dr. Patlet needs her immediately.
(b) There is a fire in the operating room.
(c) Something about Mary's blocked passage.
(d) There is infected food in the cafeteria.

8. What does Marion realize about Shiva's medical future?
(a) It will be very different from his own.
(b) He does not think about Shiva's medical future.
(c) Shiva will probably go to a Western country to practice medicine.
(d) Shiva will not practice in the medical field.

9. Why does the pilot do a stunt when Hema is flying with him?
(a) To scare Hema.
(b) To impress his girlfriend on the ground.
(c) To see if his plane as a fuel problem.
(d) So he can make an emergency landing at the airport.

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

11. How does Hema feel when she goes into the operating room and sees Mary?
(a) She cannot understand what Dr. Patlet has done.
(b) She feels the fire is not all that bad.
(c) She is excited about a new baby.
(d) She is outraged and disgusted.

12. What is Marion's life like as a toddler?
(a) Strict.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Full of love and laughter.
(d) Extreme poverty.

13. Who gives birth to Genea and Almaz?
(a) Rosina.
(b) Hema.
(c) Zemia.
(d) Sister Mary.

14. What nationality is Dr. Stone?
(a) American.
(b) English.
(c) Indian.
(d) French.

15. What does Dr. Stone begin to do when he wakes from his unconsciousness?
(a) Begins to refuse food.
(b) Becomes delusional.
(c) Begins to care for other patients.
(d) Begins to heal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ghosh summoned to the palace?

2. What does Ghosh contemplate at the opening of this chapter?

3. From where does Sister Mary Praise leave for Africa?

4. What do ShivaMarion do to avoid flying bullets?

5. How do others react to a barefoot girl being slowly led to the hospital by her father?

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