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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. Roy realized what about the Fat Man and his inventions?
(a) That he was always just out to make money.
(b) That they were Fat Man's way of sticking it to the man.
(c) That they were all nonexistent.
(d) That they were made as a way to help interns get through the year.

2. What was the clear winner of the specialties chosen by the interns?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Dermathology.
(c) Pathology.
(d) Opthamology.

3. Besides the main five interns, who else raises their hand when asked who wants to take up psychiatry?
(a) The cleaning woman.
(b) Two of the nurses.
(c) The Fat Man.
(d) The policemen.

4. What is Roy's trick with his stethoscope?
(a) He can make it seem broken if he doesn't want to deal with a patient.
(b) He has learned how to play with it as if it was a yoyo.
(c) He can talk into it and sound like the Fat Man.
(d) He can use it without the patient having to undress at all.

5. Who is the tall, emaciated-looking consultant to Roy's new unit?
(a) Billings.
(b) Howard.
(c) Pinkus.
(d) Donowitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What patient dies whom Jo spent the night sleeping next to?

2. Where does Roy pick up the nurse whom he sleeps with?

3. What was Berry giving Roy and his friends advice about in chapter 24?

4. What does Roy tell Saul is the only thing he can promise him?

5. Who takes Roy and Berry to the airport at the end of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Berry say that it is emotionally detrimental for the interns when they move on so quickly from things (like Potts' death) and in spite of everything, act like there is no past?

2. Why was Roy's new intern so nicknamed by him and Chuck, and what did Roy say the new intern lacked?

3. What does Roy ask the Runt about Angel? Why can't the Runt completely answer the question?

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

5. What is Pinkus' state of health as opposed to how he used to be?

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

7. Whom does Gilheeny claim are the three people that he and Quick will always cherish?

8. How does Roy claim that many people in the hospital "take out our hatred, our loneliness, our horror with human suffering, and our despair at human endings"?

9. When Roy goes to find the Fat Man outside of the hospital, why does he realize that he had never let him see his house before?

10. Why exactly does Chuck get in trouble in chapter 21?

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