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

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

3. John learns that Karen had been rushed to the hospital after she was found __________.
(a) Hyperventilating in the backyard gazebo.
(b) Screaming in her room.
(c) Collapsed in the driver's seat.
(d) Crying in the kitchen.

4. When John contacts the pharmacy to learn more about Karen's prescription, he learns that she was taking what?
(a) Antibiotics.
(b) Pain relief medication.
(c) A placebo.
(d) Blood pressure medicine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At Smith College, how does John get past the receptionist in the dorm rooms?

2. When John speaks with George Bradford, what does he realize?

3. When John shares with Peter Randall that he feels Karen's autopsy shows she was not pregnant, what does Peter say?

4. As the doctor finishes up the autopsy on Karen, what does John note?

5. When John goes looking for Karen's chart, he learns that it is in the possession of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. John Berry compares his puzzlement over Art Lee's case with "the Peru case." What is the Peru case to which he refers?

2. Explain why John wants to help Art Lee even though other doctors are willing to let him be a scapegoat for Karen's death.

3. While John Berry does his work in the pathology lab during the busiest part of the day, who calls him, and why?

4. After Dr. John Berry learns that Dr. Art Lee has been arrested, he recalls talking with Art about what serious matter?

5. Summarize the conversation that takes place between John and Ev outside of the Randall home.

6. Why is John surprised to see J.D. Randall performing open heart surgery?

7. When John goes to the radiology department at Memorial Hospital, what does the radiologist tell him?

8. How does J.D. Randall, Karen's father, first attempt to get John Berry to stop working on Art Lee's case?

9. Summarize the encounter between John Berry and Roger Whiting, the medical intern who had given Karen penicillin without first checking for allergies.

10. Why does John decline to help when he is asked if he wants to assist with Karen's autopsy?

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