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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 is Ghosh doing as Sister Mary Praise is dying?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Teaching a class.
(c) Dangerously ill.
(d) Walking leisurely around the hospital grounds.

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

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

4. Who decides to take the twins?
(a) Carissa.
(b) Pauline.
(c) Hema.
(d) Matron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ghosh order Gebrew to do?

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

3. What question does Hema ask Stone?

4. Who often plays cards with Ghosh?

5. What happens when Mary goes into labor, having hid her pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Marion's first exposure to violence against a person?

3. What does Hema realize about Mary, and what does Stone do when Mary dies?

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

5. How is Marion responsible for the death of a soldier?

6. Who does Marion run into when he gets mad at Hema and runs out of the house, and why is that person there?

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

8. What incident shapes Shiva to become the doctor he becomes?

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

10. Why does Eli Harris call Matron?

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