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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pounds had Paul lost in the last week in Part 2, Section 4?
(a) Five.
(b) Nine.
(c) 15.
(d) Ten.

2. What stage lung cancer did Paul have?
(a) VI.
(b) III.
(c) V.
(d) IV.

3. At the beginning of Part 2, Section 3, how many more scans was Paul to have before finishing residency?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

4. In Part 2, Section 1, what pill did Paul's oncologist say that he might take instead of chemotherapy?
(a) Tarceva.
(b) Darzalex.
(c) Abraxane.
(d) Farydak.

5. In Part 2, Section 4, who came to help Paul and Lucy?
(a) Both sets of parents.
(b) Her parents.
(c) His parents.
(d) His brothers and their wives.

6. How did Paul get to the hospital when Lucy went into labor?
(a) His father brought him.
(b) Taxi.
(c) His brother took him.
(d) His mother took him.

7. What did Paul decide to do after remembering Samuel Beckett's words in Part 2, Section 2?
(a) Become a literature professor.
(b) Go into family medicine.
(c) Become a history professor.
(d) Go back to the OR.

8. In Part 2, Section 2, how long had it been since Paul's cancer diagnosis when he was operating until late at night or into the early morning?
(a) One and a half.
(b) 12 months.
(c) One year.
(d) Nine months.

9. After Paul's second CT scan in Part 2, Section 2, how long did Emma say that a patient was on Tarceva without a problem?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

10. Before the cancer, how many years had Paul thought he would be a surgeon-scientist?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

11. Before the cancer, what did Paul think his second career would be?
(a) History professor.
(b) Literature professor.
(c) Analyst.
(d) Writer.

12. When did Paul say that the word "hope" first appeared in English?
(a) About 1,000 years ago.
(b) 2,000 years ago.
(c) About 3,000 years ago.
(d) 500 years ago.

13. What nickname did Paul's father call him?
(a) Pubby.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Ruddy.
(d) Bubby.

14. What did Paul read in Part 2, Section 2, as he turned to literature again?
(a) Dostoyevsky.
(b) Kierkgaard.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Solzhenitsyn.

15. At what time at the beginning of Part 2, Section 3, did Paul sit down to look at patients' scans and his own scans?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 5 p.m.
(c) 7 p.m.
(d) 8 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, Section 4, when had Paul's hair thinned the most?

2. In Part 2, Section 2, how long after Paul started treatment did he have his first CT scan?

3. What color was the pill that Paul began taking in Part 2, Section 1?

4. When Paul was started on chemotherapy in Part 2, Section 3, how long was he to receive treatment?

5. What object was mentioned in the poem Paul quoted at the end of Part 2, Section 3?

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