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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roy's patient Olive have that most of the interns had never seen before?

2. Fat Man was a graduate of what school?

3. Whose slogan is "you gotta have heart"?

4. Why does Roy look for someone besides Rabbi Fuchs?

5. In Chapter 15, who lovingly breaks the news to a female patient that she is going to die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is so strange about how Eat My Dust Eddie speaks about his newborn baby?

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

5. What does Berry say was a huge trigger for Roy's regression?

6. What is Roy's father's reaction to finding out that Roy is going into psychiatry?

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

8. What does Nate Zock say he's going to write in his letter to the chief of medicine, Dr. Leggo, the chief resident, and the BMS and House trustees? What did Roy find out later that Nate Zock also did?

9. What single incident, with the hepatitis woman, made it hard for Roy "to do extremely well for a minute or two"? How did Roy and the nurse react?

10. What was happening that made the interns all more isolated from one another?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What caused such emotion to emerge in Roy that makes him snap out of his apathetic state? Explain why you believe such a small incident could bring about such clarity. Use quotes from the book to tie the moment of clarity in with times Roy felt lost, and compare and contrast.

Essay Topic 2

The Fat Man teaches his interns that most of the time doing nothing to their patients is better than trying to save their lives. Often when a doctor does tests and gives medication, other ailments result and the patients are worse off then when they arrived. Jo and Dr. Leggo disagree with this mentality and believe that everything should be done to try to save someone's life. Explore both viewpoints and pinpoint what morals each one exemplifies.

Essay Topic 3

There are many times throughout the novel where ethics are questioned. Name at least three times where they appear and explain the outcomes.

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