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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What disease does Patrick have?
(a) Hirschsprung's disease.
(b) Blastocytosis.
(c) Lou Gehrig's disease.
(d) Leukemia.
2. What is the most important criterion of Patrick's status?
(a) He must be given the least expensive treatment option.
(b) He must be kept comfortable.
(c) He must be allowed to participate in the discussion of his treatment options.
(d) He must be kept out of the treatment loop, so that he does not become upset.
3. What are Patrick's doctors supposed to do, given his status?
(a) They are allowed to continue treatment under certain circumstances.
(b) They are required to stop treatment if he goes into cardiac arrest.
(c) They are required to do all they can to save his life.
(d) They can do whatever they think is right, given the situation.
4. Who wrote the note at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Sally Olsen.
(b) Teresa Knapper.
(c) Armando Dimas.
(d) Lin Weeks.
5. How do Fran and Carey feel about Taylor's new doctor?
(a) They connect much better.
(b) They dislike him/her as much as they disliked Sharon.
(c) They want Sharon back.
(d) They don't really care either way.
6. Why doesn't Patrick's doctor want to give him surgery?
(a) He's not sure it's completely necessary.
(b) It is risky, and will only lead to a new infection.
(c) It is expensive, and his insurance won't cover it.
(d) He isn't sure that he is qualified to do it.
7. How does Javier feel about Patrick?
(a) He is attached to Patrick, and this burdens him because he is also responsible for all of the other children at the hospital.
(b) He is more attached to him than the other hospital staff.
(c) He is not sure if he thinks Patrick is spoiled, or simply attention-starved.
(d) He thinks he is too demanding, and at times paranoid about his condition.
8. Who is Sally Olsen?
(a) Patrick's doctor.
(b) Patrick's social worker.
(c) The hospital's financial administrator.
(d) Javier's assistant.
9. What happens to Patrick's line, as a result of his tampering?
(a) It breaks, and he goes into cardiac arrest.
(b) It gets increasingly infected, and needs to be replaced.
(c) Nothing, but the hospital staff are angry with him.
(d) It is disconnected, and they try to find another way to deliver his medications.
10. Who raises the question of whether to withdraw Patrick's IV line?
(a) Javier.
(b) Lin.
(c) Sally.
(d) Sharon.
11. What happened to Armando?
(a) He was driving a car, and hit a tree.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He fell off of a ladder.
(d) He was walking, and was hit by a car.
12. What does Patrick's illness do to him?
(a) It makes his intestines unable to extract the water from the food he eats.
(b) It makes him unable to absorb nutrition from the food he eats.
(c) Waste stays in his intestines, and damages his intestinal tissue.
(d) It makes him unable to digest seeds and vegetable matter.
13. Where did Armando and his family come from?
(a) Matamotos, Mexico.
(b) Madrid, Spain.
(c) Southern California.
(d) San Antonio, Texas.
14. How many people are at the meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.
15. What does David attempt to explain to Armando's family at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) That Armando will never walk again.
(b) That his chances of survival are slim.
(c) That he needs their signature on the consent form to do surgery on Armando.
(d) They have to go to another hospital because Armando is uninsured.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Jake?
2. How old is Patrick Dismuke?
3. What is Taylor's biggest health problem?
4. How do the hospital staff, except Javier, feel about Patrick?
5. Who is Fran's obstetrician?
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