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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author say he felt the stigma of being poor more acutely?
(a) Because his house was in need of repair.
(b) Because most of the kids at school were rich.
(c) Because he did not have a father.
(d) Because his clothes were dirty.

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

3. What does the author believe, even after losing Jennifer, about his relationship to patients?
(a) He feels he is a father figure to his patients.
(b) He believes nurses should break bad news to parents for him.
(c) He thinks it is fine to be emotionally attached.
(d) He believes he will cry whenever he loses a patient.

4. What did Aubrey Tompkins suggest when Candy's audition at the church did not work out?
(a) That she sing in the choir.
(b) That she go home.
(c) That she try harder next time.
(d) That she keep practicing.

5. What does the author say happened every time an instrument touched Maranda during her surgery?
(a) Her toes moved.
(b) Her blood pressure dropped.
(c) She started to bleed.
(d) Her fingers moved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did the author recommend Candy try out for at his church in "A Serious Step"?

2. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?

3. In "A Boy's Big Problem," what does the author say his mother needed in order to provide for the family and keep up the house?

4. How long did Maranda's hemispherectomy take in "Heartbreak"?

5. Why did the author withdraw his applications to medical school programs at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Michigan State, and Wayne State?

(see the answer key)

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