2. What does Shiva do when he sees the father and barefoot girl?
(a) Runs inside the hospital.
(b) Hides in the bushes.
(c) Makes Marion go help the girl.
(d) Goes and takes her hand.

3. What does Hema shout at Stone?
(a) That he needs to use the fire extinguisher.
(b) That he must be the father.
(c) That he is an idiot.
(d) That he needs to leave immediately.

4. What question does Hema ask Stone?
(a) Why there is no extinguisher in the room.
(b) Why Mary was not brought in for prenatal examination.
(c) Why he let Patlet operate.
(d) Why Stone did not wait for Hema.

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

6. What happens when an old woman tries to talk to the Emperor?
(a) She is invited to sit inside the Rolls.
(b) She is given an appointment to talk to an official.
(c) She is shot.
(d) She is beaten.

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

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

9. Who is Zemui?
(a) A tribal chief.
(b) Another doctor at the hospital.
(c) Colonel Mebratu's driver.
(d) The twins' uncle.

10. What happens when Ghosh begins spending alone time with Marion in the hospital?
(a) Marion grows away from Shiva.
(b) Marion learns a lot about handling people.
(c) Marion starts to get ill.
(d) Marion finds a deep love of medicine.

11. What does Hema do because of feeling guilty?
(a) Makes the twins study almost non-stop.
(b) Tries to find Sister Mary's relatives.
(c) Puts up with Ghosh's bad moods.
(d) Gives the twins more attention than her own children.

12. What does the family learn about General Mebratu?
(a) He has organized a coup against the Emperor.
(b) He is dead.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He has been sent out of the country into exile.

13. Who is weeping in the operating room?
(a) Gebrew.
(b) Nabor.
(c) Matron.
(d) Stewart.

14. What do the men in a Jeep do?
(a) Grab Marion.
(b) Shoot up the hospital's windows.
(c) Slam into Ghosh's departing car.
(d) Arrest Ghosh.

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