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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. Who is Victoria Dimas?
(a) The head nurse.
(b) Armando's mother.
(c) A cafeteria worker.
(d) Armando's doctor.

2. Who is Sally Olsen?
(a) Patrick's doctor.
(b) Patrick's social worker.
(c) Javier's assistant.
(d) The hospital's financial administrator.

3. What does Teresa want to do?
(a) Donate money to the pediatric wing of the hospital.
(b) Cut funding for uninsured or underinsured patient care.
(c) Establish new guidelines for withdrawing life support from patients.
(d) Participate in the ethics committee at Hermann.

4. What happened to Armando?
(a) He fell off of a ladder.
(b) He was walking, and was hit by a car.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was driving a car, and hit a tree.

5. What does Patrick's illness do to him?
(a) Waste stays in his intestines, and damages his intestinal tissue.
(b) It makes his intestines unable to extract the water from the food he eats.
(c) It makes him unable to absorb nutrition from the food he eats.
(d) It makes him unable to digest seeds and vegetable matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David attempt to explain to Armando's family at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What disease does Patrick have?

3. What has gone wrong that might induce premature labor for Fran?

4. What do Fran and Carey begin to worry about, as the weeks go on?

5. How do Fran and Carey feel about their hospital doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Patrick admit to doing in Chapter 7?

2. What is the situation of the Poarch family at the end of Chapter 2?

3. Why did Armando leave Fort Worth to go to Madisonville?

4. What is Oria Dismuke's relationship with Patrick?

5. What are Sally Olsen's duties and abilities?

6. How do the Poarches feel about the doctor they receive when they first arrive at Hermann?

7. What is Fran's treatment when she first arrives at Hermann?

8. What is the Institutional Ethics Committee?

9. How does Patrick feel about the hospital and its staff, compared to his home and family?

10. What is the purpose of the Ethics Committee?

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