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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 Marcel Marceau do at the show that Roy had seen before?
(a) Act out an intervention.
(b) Do a spot-on impression of Nixon.
(c) Act out a whole person's life, in stages.
(d) Throw his voice so that it made it look like Roy was talking.

2. What does Roy buy himself at the end of chapter 21?
(a) A car.
(b) A fishing rod.
(c) A basketball.
(d) A pair of running shoes.

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

4. What activity does Roy decide he is going to participate in?
(a) Running.
(b) Walking to work.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Bowling.

5. What did Roy's patient Olive have that most of the interns had never seen before?
(a) A third breast.
(b) Two humps under her breasts.
(c) A tail.
(d) An eyeless cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Roy and his friends when Berry gives them all advice?

2. In his fantasy he has while at work, Roy imagines the mystery woman's perfume to smell like what?

3. Who surprised Roy by admitting he had killed patients before?

4. Sam Levin, an eighty-year-old patient, is known for what?

5. Who barges in on Roy and physically makes him go to the show with Berry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does the Fat Man focus on in his workshop? What specialties?

4. When the elevator doesn't move, what is Roy's reaction? When he asks Eddie if he's gone nuts, what is his response? What does this show about their states of mind?

5. 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"?

6. What was said by Chuck to Leggo in their farewell meeting that Roy said, for the first time, that the Leggo seemed to hear?

7. What is so strange about how Eat My Dust Eddie speaks about his newborn baby?

8. What single incident, with the hepatitis woman, made it hard for Roy "to do extremely well for a minute or two"? How did Roy and the nurse react?

9. What does Nate Zock say he's going to write in his letter to the chief of medicine, Dr. Leggo, the chief resident, and the BMS and House trustees? What did Roy find out later that Nate Zock also did?

10. 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?

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