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Abraham Verghese
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Cutting for Stone Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Abraham Verghese
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ghosh order Gebrew to do?
(a) Tie the litter of puppies to the exhaust pipe of a car.
(b) Find a cat for the twins as a pet.
(c) Find homes for the puppies.
(d) Help Shiva with his self defense class.

3. 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.

4. For what purpose has Eli's church been sending Matron money?
(a) For an educational progarm about STD's.
(b) For a new village well.
(c) To fund a new school building.
(d) To research the prevalence of STD's in Ethiopia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what physical condition are the twins?

2. What is the man running towards the hospital carrying?

3. What does Hema realize about Mary?

4. What question does Hema ask Stone?

5. What had Marion always been known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marion and Shiva's first experience with someone dying because of not getting medical care soon enough?

2. What does Marion remember about being a toddler?

3. Why are Sister Mary and Anjali on a boat,and what happens to some of the people on the boat?

4. How does Sister Mary care for Dr. Stone, and what happens while she takes care of him?

5. What does Hema realize almost instantly in the operating room, and what does she shout at Stone? What is his response?

6. What happens when Dr. Stone is close to death?

7. Why does Rosina run to the palace during the beginning of the coup?

8. How does Mary end up at Missing Hospital?

9. By the time the twins are six how are they known, and what do they realize about Shiva?

10. How does the family receive word about Mebratu's coup and what is the coup like initially?

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