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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When John contacts the pharmacy to learn more about Karen's prescription, he learns that she was taking what?
(a) Blood pressure medicine.
(b) Pain relief medication.
(c) A placebo.
(d) Antibiotics.

2. When John Berry gains access to Art Lee in jail, how much time is he given for their meeting?
(a) Twenty minutes.
(b) Thirty minutes.
(c) Two minutes.
(d) Ten minutes.

3. After meeting with Art in jail, John calls his wife, Judith, and asks her to do what?
(a) Meet with Betty to get some answers.
(b) Check on Betty and keep her calm.
(c) Start an investigation into Karen's death.
(d) Set up a meeting with Karen's mother.

4. When Arthur Lee refuses Suzanne Blake's request, she says that she will do what?
(a) Drop out of college and live like a hermit.
(b) Report him to his supervisor.
(c) Get an abortion from someone who charges two hundred dollars.
(d) Find the next best obstetrician since he will not help her.

5. Why is John surprised when he learns that J.D. Randall is in the operating room performing open-heart surgery?
(a) Randall does not have enough experience for this procedure.
(b) His wife has been hospitalized.
(c) Randall is supposed to be at the police station.
(d) His daughter had died the previous evening.

6. What does the person conducting the autopsy on Karen notice about her uterus?
(a) It shows signs of multiple pregnancies.
(b) It is not as large as it should be if she had been pregnant.
(c) Part of it has been removed.
(d) It has an unusual shape.

7. How does John Berry react to Roger Whiting's self-pity?
(a) He wants to hug Roger and tell him it will be alright.
(b) He wants to tell Roger to get used to making mistakes.
(c) He feels like laughing out loud, but holds back.
(d) He tells Roger that he should move to another city.

8. When John goes looking for Karen's chart, he learns that it is in the possession of whom?
(a) Her father.
(b) The police.
(c) The private investigator.
(d) Her stepmother.

9. According to Carr, who called the police after Karen's death?
(a) Her stepmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her doctor.

10. John offers several scenarios under which an autopsy would be performed. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons he presents?
(a) The patient dies within a day of arriving at the hospital.
(b) The patient dies under violent or unusual circumstances.
(c) The patient is related to a hospital staff member.
(d) The patient is dead upon arrival at the hospital.

11. After Mrs. McPherson dies during heart surgery, how long does the surgeon spend trying to revive her?
(a) Thirty-five minutes.
(b) Seventy-two minutes.
(c) Six hours.
(d) Three hours.

12. Roger Whiting, the intern who tended to Karen Randall at the hospital, had come up with what diagnosis for her?
(a) Brain hemorrhage.
(b) Anemia.
(c) Miscarriage.
(d) Preeclampsia.

13. How does J.D. Randall reply when John Berry asks what he would have done if Karen had told him she was pregnant?
(a) He says there is no point in speculating.
(b) He calls John an insolent jerk.
(c) He begins to cry quietly.
(d) He tells John to shut up.

14. Who is Alan Zenner?
(a) A friend of Karen's.
(b) One of Karen's professors.
(c) Karen's drug dealer.
(d) Karen's cousin.

15. Why does John want to talk with Alan Zenner?
(a) To scare him into saying who the abortionist is.
(b) To learn more about Karen's lifestyle.
(c) To get the names of more friends.
(d) To find out if he's the father of the baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Roger Whiting respond when John Berry asks him if he plans to settle in Boston?

2. Roger Whiting discovered that six months earlier, a full set of cranial X-rays had been taken of Karen. Who does he think ordered them?

3. After J.D. Randall tries to bribe John Berry to get him to drop Art Lee's case, J.D. resorts to what?

4. Without being asked, William Randall makes sure that John Berry knows what?

5. At Smith College, how does John get past the receptionist in the dorm rooms?

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