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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Marion have a difficult time believing?
(a) That Hema is not their real mother.
(b) That their mothe was a Roman Catholic nun.
(c) That Mebratu and Zemui are bad.
(d) That their father is coming for a visit.

3. How does the person who takes the twins feel about it?
(a) Thrilled.
(b) Angry.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Anxious.

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

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

6. Who often plays cards with Ghosh?
(a) Marion.
(b) Zemui and Mebratu.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Hema.

7. What does Ghosh fear about Hema?
(a) She has returned married.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She has moved back to England.
(d) She has moved to the United States.

8. What does Zemui say when she returns?
(a) The coup is a success.
(b) Things are much worse than anticipated.
(c) The Emperor has gone into exile.
(d) General Mebratu is in hiding.

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

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

11. What has devastated Mary Praise about the illness?
(a) A pregnant woman miscarriaged due to the illness.
(b) Fourteen small children died from it.
(c) It was completely preventable.
(d) Her friend, Anjali, died from it.

12. What song does Marion remember hearing as he breastfed?
(a) Suprita.
(b) None.
(c) Brahm's Lullaby.
(d) Tzita.

13. How does Hema feel about Stone's response?
(a) She finds it hard to believe.
(b) She thinks he should have gone to the city for an extinguisher himself.
(c) She thinks he should have blocked Patlet.
(d) She thinks he was too proud to wait for her.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Matron lie to Eli?

2. Who is Zemui?

3. What is Stone's response to Hema?

4. What do Hema, Ghosh and the twins see when they go into the city?

5. Of what does the man who turns up in Ghosh's office complain?

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