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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 11 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is excited about a new baby.
(c) She is outraged and disgusted.
(d) She feels the fire is not all that bad.

2. What happens when Mary goes into labor, having hid her pregnancy?
(a) She delivers easily.
(b) Dr. Stone becomes happy.
(c) Another doctor, Hema, is brought in to help with the delivery.
(d) She goes into distress and comes close to death.

3. What does Ghosh contemplate at the opening of this chapter?
(a) Why humans die.
(b) How his life would be different if he were English.
(c) The existence of God.
(d) Sexually-transmitted diseases.

4. What does Hema realize about Mary?
(a) She will take a long time to recover.
(b) She is the one who started the fire.
(c) She should be proud to have twins.
(d) Hema will be unable to save her life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Matron lie to Eli?

2. What does the Emperor ask Matron?

3. Where does the boat dock in Africa?

4. What has devastated Mary Praise about the illness?

5. What is Almaz doing as Ghosh encounters her?

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