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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stone send a telegram to Hema?
(a) He wants to know about Mary's letter.
(b) Genet is dying.
(c) He wants to see Shiva.
(d) Marion is on his deathbed.

2. What does Marion tell Tsige about Genet?
(a) Her betrayal with Shiva.
(b) That she is insane.
(c) That she got him in trouble in Ethiopia.
(d) That she and Shiva have a child.

3. Who comes to the house the day of the execution?
(a) Zemui.
(b) Rosina.
(c) Some soldiers.
(d) Thomas Stone.

4. What does Genet begin to do in medical school?
(a) Skip lectures and labs.
(b) Becomes hostile with the professors.
(c) Have sex with all the boys.
(d) Excell better than Marion.

5. What does Marion want to do with his father?
(a) Make him suffer.
(b) Get to know him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Do a residency under him.

6. When does Ghosh return home from the prison?
(a) The day Mebratu is executed.
(b) The night before Mebratu is executed.
(c) Two days after the execution.
(d) A week before Mebratu is executed.

7. Why did Thomas leave Africa?
(a) He was overwhelmed with guilt and grief.
(b) He had no license to practice medicine there.
(c) Hema was so angry at him.
(d) He could be brought up on manslaughter charges.

8. Where does Marion go to celebrate passing his medical boards?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) To Africa.
(c) An Ethiopian restaurant.
(d) To Washington D.C.

9. What does Marion find at Rosina's bungalow?
(a) All of Genet's possessions are on the front lawn.
(b) Rosina is gone.
(c) Rosina has hung herself.
(d) The bungalow is empty.

10. Why does Marion visit Rosina's bungalow?
(a) To pick up some of Genet's clothes.
(b) To check on Rosina.
(c) To take Rosina some food.
(d) To drop off some books.

11. How has Thomas felt most of his life?
(a) Angry and resentful.
(b) Calm and peaceful.
(c) Anxious and depressed.
(d) Happy and energetic.

12. What does Rosina do when Marion returns home from the hospital?
(a) Tries to get him to come sleep with her.
(b) Attacks him.
(c) Questions him about where Genet is.
(d) Talks to him about Shiva.

13. What does Marion attend when he is in Boston?
(a) A Boston Pop Symphony Concert.
(b) A medical conference on fistulas.
(c) A seminar Stone is giving.
(d) An opera.

14. How does the doctor feel about the Chief Resident's work?
(a) It angers him.
(b) He is indifferent to it.
(c) It impresses him.
(d) He is curious about the Chief Resident's method.

15. What extra job does Ghosh do?
(a) Has a medical website.
(b) Works as a university lecturer.
(c) Treats the Emperor's family.
(d) Runs a free clinic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Shiva die?

2. Why is Stone hesitate about Shiva's idea?

3. What does Stone do when he first sees Marion?

4. How does Genet feel about the Emperor?

5. Why does the nurse practitioner apologize to Marion?

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