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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game do Shiva, Marion and Genet play regularly?
(a) Chutes and ladders.
(b) Hide and seek.
(c) Hopscotch.
(d) Blind Man's Bluff.

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

3. What happens when Shiva is six?
(a) He stops talking.
(b) He gets lost in the jungle.
(c) He becomes ill and in a coma.
(d) He has a bad fall.

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

5. What does the Emperor say to Matron?
(a) That he is sorry for Sister Mary's death.
(b) That he needs medical care.
(c) That he is sorry that Thomas Stone disappeared.
(d) That he is sending Matron two more nuns to help them.

6. How does Mary Praise begin to feel towards Dr. Stone?
(a) She begins to detest him.
(b) She is falling in love with him.
(c) She is angry with him.
(d) She is indifferent to him.

7. According to Marion, what will Shiva do when he's ready?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Talk.
(c) Sing.
(d) Make friends.

8. How do others react to a barefoot girl being slowly led to the hospital by her father?
(a) They make mean remarks.
(b) They try to help the father.
(c) They cover their noses and move away.
(d) They faint.

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

10. Of what does the man who turns up in Ghosh's office complain?
(a) Sore throat.
(b) Headache.
(c) A rash.
(d) Severe stomach pain.

11. What do ShivaMarion do to avoid flying bullets?
(a) Hide in a supply closet.
(b) Go into the cellar.
(c) Hide in the attic.
(d) Lie under mattresses.

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

13. For whom do Matron and Ghosh search the next morning?
(a) Sister Mary Praise.
(b) Almaz.
(c) Hema.
(d) Thomas Stone.

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

15. What does the Emperor ask Matron?
(a) If Thomas Stone could come see the Emperor as soon as possible.
(b) If Sister Mary Praise needs a burial plot.
(c) If the Matron would care for his daughter who is ill.
(d) If anyone at Missing has treated an army general.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when an old woman tries to talk to the Emperor?

2. What does Ghosh fear about Hema?

3. Why does Sister Mary go to the Missing Hospital?

4. Why does Ghosh attach an anklet to Shiva?

5. What does Dr. Stone do when he his well enough?

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