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

2. Where does John Kerry have a meeting with William Randall?
(a) In the coffee shop.
(b) At the public library.
(c) At the medical school dormitory.
(d) In the general hospital's cafeteria.

3. The last time that William Randall saw Karen, she had talked Uncle Peter into doing what?
(a) Lending her his car.
(b) Taking her to the museum.
(c) Taking her to the movies.
(d) Lending her fifty dollars.

4. Why does John call Lewis Carr after meeting with the medical intern?
(a) He really wants to see Karen's charts.
(b) He does not believe what the intern just told him.
(c) He needs a ride home.
(d) He wants to know if the police have come by.

5. After Mrs. McPherson dies during heart surgery, her surgeon says he does not know what?
(a) If he will lose his license to practice medicine.
(b) How to tell her four children.
(c) If she had been diagnosed correctly.
(d) How to explain this to his supervisor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though Lewis Carr, clinical professor of medicine at Boston Memorial, declines to talk with John by phone, he does explain what?

2. When Frank Conway enters the pathology lab and encounters John Berry, he throws a tantrum over what?

3. After John Berry gets an unexpected call in the pathology lab, what does he learn?

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

5. After coming to the conclusion that Art Lee uses discernment and compassion in deciding whether or not to perform an abortion, John Berry begins doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When John goes to the radiology department at Memorial Hospital, what does the radiologist tell him?

2. How does J.D. Randall deflect pointed questions John Berry asks of him during their first conversation?

3. What does John Berry say about Dr. Conway's manner of conducting autopsies?

4. Who is Mrs. McPherson, and what happens to her?

5. Why is John surprised to see J.D. Randall performing open heart surgery?

6. What key details does John learn about Karen from her roommate Ginnie?

7. Why does John decline to help when he is asked if he wants to assist with Karen's autopsy?

8. Why does Roger Whiting come up with "miscarriage" as a diagnosis for Karen's condition?

9. Explain why other doctors let Dr. Frank Conway rant and rave after one of his patients dies.

10. Why do the police arrest Art Lee?

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