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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jock's favorite thing?

2. Who is Richard Edmundson?

3. What does Herriot purchase in the auction house?

4. What is husk, the first ailment that afflicted the Darby cattle?

5. What happens to the ewes that causes one to lose her babies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Tristan's role in sightings of the monk.

2. Explain the solution Herriot finds for Mr. Pickersgill and his cow.

3. In chapter one, Herriot greatly appreciates a benefit of his wife and married life. What is it?

4. What procedure does Granville Bennett do on Dinah? How does it go? Why didn't Herriot want to do it?

5. Describe Granville Bennett.

6. What does Herriot find so difficult and horrifying about treating the cows for husk at the Darby farm?

7. Explain what happened when Herriot tried to draw blood from the fully mature Monty.

8. What was the experience of the stomach operation on Monty like for Herriot? Why?

9. At the Darrowby show, what parameters does Herriot decide to use to judge the family pet competition? Why?

10. How does a cap play into the story of Mr. Crump and the Bamfords?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about epilepsy.

Part 1. What is epilepsy? What causes it and what does it look like?

Part 2. What are the historical interpretations and reactions to epilepsy?

Part 3. What management and cures are available for epilepsy?

Part 4. What is the appropriate response to a seizure?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about tetanus, also known as lockjaw.

Part 1. What is tetanus? How do people or animals get it? Who is most at risk and where is it most common?

Part 2. What are the symptoms and pathophysiology of tetanus?

Part 3. What prevention is available and what cures?

Essay Topic 3

Several times during the book, Herriot talks about what it was like practicing in days before penicillin. Write an essay about the discover of penicillin and how it impacted the world.

Part 1. When and how was penicillin discovered?

Part 2. How did things change for the medical field due to penicillin?

Part 3. What are some treatments that are no longer used due to penicillin?

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