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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when John Berry arrives at the police station and requests to see Dr. Lee?
(a) He is greeted warmly.
(b) He is refused admittance.
(c) He is almost arrested.
(d) He is told to come back later.

2. Roger Whiting discovered that six months earlier, a full set of cranial X-rays had been taken of Karen. Who does he think ordered them?
(a) Peter Randall, her uncle and physician.
(b) J.D. Randall, her father and one of the chief surgeons.
(c) Walter Randall, her brother and a medical intern.
(d) Jennifer Randall, her sister and nurse.

3. Even though Lewis Carr, clinical professor of medicine at Boston Memorial, declines to talk with John by phone, he does explain what?
(a) That Art had nothing to do with Karen.
(b) That Karen's autopsy is about to take place.
(c) That Art used to be a well-respected doctor.
(d) That Karen's mother is threatening to sue the hospital.

4. After Mrs. McPherson dies during heart surgery, her surgeon says he does not know what?
(a) How to explain this to his supervisor.
(b) If he will lose his license to practice medicine.
(c) How to tell her four children.
(d) If she had been diagnosed correctly.

5. What type of work does Dr. John Berry typically perform in the pathology lab?
(a) He gives second opinions.
(b) He analyzes tissue samples.
(c) He analyzes X-rays.
(d) He isolates viruses.

6. Alan Zenner tells John that Karen __________.
(a) Had multiple personalities.
(b) Was about to drop out of college.
(c) Had a bad reputation.
(d) Was a model student.

7. After J.D. Randall tries to bribe John Berry to get him to drop Art Lee's case, J.D. resorts to what?
(a) Pleas.
(b) Insults.
(c) Threats.
(d) Lies.

8. When was the last time William Randall had seen Karen alive?
(a) A year ago.
(b) The previous Wednesday.
(c) A month ago.
(d) The previous Saturday.

9. Alan Zenner explains to John that Karen had claimed she was pregnant and was scared about having an abortion, but he _________.
(a) Did not like her.
(b) Did not care.
(c) Did not have time to comfort her.
(d) Did not believe her.

10. As Jack Hendricks prepares to do an autopsy on Karen Randall, who arrives and performs the procedure instead?
(a) Lewis Carr, clinical professor.
(b) Arthur Klein, forensics expert.
(c) Leland Weston, chief pathologist.
(d) Janice Altwater, head of staff.

11. Suzanne Blake is a college student who __________.
(a) Falls in love with a professor.
(b) Has survived cervical cancer.
(c) Desperately wants a baby.
(d) Becomes pregnant by accident.

12. Peter Randall explains to John that he had ordered head X-rays for Karen because she had been complaining of what?
(a) Hearing loss.
(b) Migraine headaches.
(c) Vision loss.
(d) Neck pain.

13. Why does John call Lewis Carr after meeting with the medical intern?
(a) He really wants to see Karen's charts.
(b) He needs a ride home.
(c) He does not believe what the intern just told him.
(d) He wants to know if the police have come by.

14. Art Lee tells John Berry that when Karen Randall left his office, he was under the impression that she __________.
(a) Had decided to give her child up for adoption.
(b) Was going to have an abortion in another country.
(c) Had decided to have her baby.
(d) Was relieved that he refused to do an abortion.

15. What does John say in response to the Randall family's belief that Karen had paid Art Lee three hundred dollars for an abortion?
(a) It would be easy to trace the check and see who had cashed it.
(b) The family needs to stop framing Art.
(c) Art always charges twenty-five dollars only to cover lab costs.
(d) Art accepts no money whatsoever for doing an abortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John want to talk with Alan Zenner?

2. Suzanne Blake seeks Arthur Lee because she wants him to do what?

3. Who is Alan Zenner?

4. When John calls Lewis Carr after meeting with the medical intern, what is Lewis' demeanor?

5. As John stops to watch an open-heart surgical operation, he compares it to what?

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