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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Heartbreak.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept allowed Maranda to manage well without the left half of her brain?
(a) Multiplicity.
(b) Relativity.
(c) Serendipity.
(d) Plasticity.

2. What significant sign of recovery did Maranda show after her hemispherectomy?
(a) She had little swelling.
(b) She sat up on the gurney.
(c) She talked.
(d) She slept.

3. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Play basketball.
(b) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.
(c) Tutor his friends.
(d) Work at a gas station.

4. Which of Candy's three college majors does the author say she eventually dropped?
(a) Premed.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Music.
(d) English.

5. What did the Yale admissions office pay for the author and Candy to do before Thanksgiving 1972?
(a) Start a religious club on campus.
(b) Buy a house.
(c) Recruit in Detroit area high schools.
(d) Register in a marathon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the author when he was baptized for the second time?

2. What was Candy Rustin's real name in "A Serious Step"?

3. Why does the author say he felt the stigma of being poor more acutely?

4. What gift does the author say has been an invaluable asset as a surgeon?

5. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?

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