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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. What does it mean to TURF someone?
(a) To fix their charts.
(b) To fix their medicine.
(c) To check them in to the hospital.
(d) To send them to another part of the hospital.

2. What was Chuck the only of in his ward?
(a) African-American/black.
(b) Handicapped.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Latino.

3. How does Chuck ensure clean sheets for himself in the on-call sleeping room?
(a) He bribes the lady from housekeeping.
(b) He sleeps with the lady from housekeeping.
(c) He does his own.
(d) He offers free health care to all the housekeeping staff.

4. What was Berry's reaction to Roy admitting he was having an affair?
(a) She walked away and didn't say a word.
(b) She broke up with him.
(c) She said as long as it went both ways, she was OK with it.
(d) She was so surprised she almost fainted.

5. What does BMS stand for?
(a) Best medical system.
(b) Board-certified medical school.
(c) Broken medical system.
(d) Best medical school/student.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Sociable Cervix?

2. How does Berry react to Roy when he jokingly talks about the gomers?

3. The lowest rung on the hospital hierarchy is who?

4. Why is Bruiser ashamed in Chapter 9?

5. Potts speaks of how he is strangely jealous of his brother because his profession is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Gilheeny and Quick tell a story about an intern Grenade Room Dubler, who was set up with a favor by the policemen. What was the favor, and what was the outcome?

2. Why did Roy think Berry suspected something was up with him (and possibly someone else) in Chapter 8?

3. What is Roy's mother's reaction when she senses his ambivalence about medicine and the internship?

4. What imaginary object does Cohen tell Roy to use when he doesn't know how he will make it through their 24-hour shift?

5. Why does the Fat Man say that in internal medicine it's not necessary to see the patients?

6. How does Chuck say he got into medical school?

7. What happens when Potts hydrates the gomer Ida against the Fat Man's wishes?

8. Why does the Fat Man say the interns should do a bad job filling out the paperwork?

9. How does Roy say the interns in the House of God handled intimacy?

10. Potts is on Valium, and starts putting his patients on it as well. Why does he say he's doing this?

(see the answer keys)

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