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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 did Roy really go to see the Fat Man in chapter 23?
(a) To wish him luck with his invention.
(b) To ask him for a favor.
(c) To apologize.
(d) To tell him he's leaving.

2. What does Roy buy himself at the end of chapter 21?
(a) A pair of running shoes.
(b) A fishing rod.
(c) A basketball.
(d) A car.

3. What does Roy find out about Molly in Chapter 17?
(a) That she's dating another intern.
(b) That she has been sleeping with half the staff.
(c) That she plans on getting in touch with Berry.
(d) That she's manic depressive.

4. What does Roy tell Saul is the only thing he can promise him?
(a) That he won't resuscitate him.
(b) That he will have no pain.
(c) That he will only live if the medicine works.
(d) That he will try his hardest to cure him.

5. The Fat Man keeps note cards for what reason?
(a) To keep track of all the interns' mistakes.
(b) To remember his schedule.
(c) To keep track of the patients' symptoms.
(d) To keep all his ideas for inventions on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Molly get mad at Roy in chapter 16?

2. What is the first disadvantage listed of all the specialties except psychiatry?

3. What is PInkus' favorite hobby?

4. What was the clear winner of the specialties chosen by the interns?

5. Who were the Blue Blazers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Fat Man focus on in his workshop? What specialties?

2. What was said by Chuck to Leggo in their farewell meeting that Roy said, for the first time, that the Leggo seemed to hear?

3. How does Roy claim that many people in the hospital "take out our hatred, our loneliness, our horror with human suffering, and our despair at human endings"?

4. What started happening around Passover and what was Roy's idea to stop it? Does it work?

5. When Roy finds out that Molly is seeing another intern named Howie, what kind of hypothetical situation does he conjure up in his mind?

6. Whom does Gilheeny claim are the three people that he and Quick will always cherish?

7. What does the new extract the Fat Man created, and what is its one side effect?

8. Why exactly does Chuck get in trouble in chapter 21?

9. What does Roy ask the Runt about Angel? Why can't the Runt completely answer the question?

10. What does Jo say, after one of her patients dies, that shows her to be totally devoid of emotion or compassion?

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