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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bernard's answer to the paradox brought up at a dinner party?
(a) When all the wood has been replaced.
(b) When half of the wood has been replaced.
(c) When the first plank has been replaced.
(d) Never. As long as the ship is sailing it should be called the ship of Theseus, even when all its wood has been replaced.

2. At what did Munro say he was best at in all of Scotland?
(a) He was the best card player.
(b) He was the best shot.
(c) He was the best knife thrower.
(d) He was the best resurrection man.

3. How did Hazel use the wortflower-root to treat Roman fever boils?
(a) She powdered the root and applied it directly to the boils.
(b) She chewed the root, mixed it with water and put the resulting mash on the boils.
(c) She steamed the root and had her patients eat it.
(d) She had patients put the wortflower-root tea on their bodies.

4. Who found Jack and Hazel in the morning after they fell asleep in the grave?
(a) Bernard.
(b) A priest.
(c) Dr. Beecham III.
(d) The man with the stovepipe hat.

5. What did Hazel think of Bernard's kiss?
(a) She enjoyed it.
(b) She couldn't wait for another kiss.
(c) Cold and Wet.
(d) She thought Bernard was an excellent kisser.

6. Which part of the Wortlfower did Jack's mother use?
(a) The stem.
(b) The roots.
(c) The flower petals.
(d) The leaves.

7. In Chapter 34, who was the figure in the wheelchair?
(a) Munro.
(b) Hazel's carriage driver.
(c) A young boy.
(d) Jeanette.

8. What made Hazel freeze on her way to take her physician's exam?
(a) Jeanette coming out of the pub.
(b) A man wheeling a veiled figure down the street.
(c) She saw her mother.
(d) She saw Dr. Beecham.

9. What was the scar from on Jeanette's stomach?
(a) Jeanette fell when she was little.
(b) Jeanette had her appendix taken out.
(c) Jeanette cut herself accidentally when she was in the kitchen.
(d) Jeanette had cyst removed.

10. In Chapter 29, who came to see Hazel from her anatomy classes?
(a) Thrupp.
(b) Burgess.
(c) Dr. Beecham.
(d) Dr. Straine.

11. What note handwritten in the margin did Hazel see in Dr. Beecham's treatise next to treatments for the common cold?
(a) Colloidal silver.
(b) Gold shavings.
(c) Ultraviolet light.
(d) Mercury tonic.

12. What did Jack's mother do with Wortflower?
(a) Made a bouquet of the flowers to sell.
(b) Made tea with it.
(c) Made a powder out of it to put on wounds.
(d) Boiled the leaves and ate them.

13. At the beginning of Chapter 19, why did Iona disturb Hazel?
(a) Iona didn't know where Hazel was.
(b) Because it was the day of the Almont Ball.
(c) Iona wanted to talk to Hazel about Charles.
(d) Iona was lonely and wanted Hazel for company.

14. What did the first patient to die under Hazel's care die from?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) Roman fever.
(d) An infected wound.

15. When Hazel saw someone disturbing on her way to take her exam, where was that person headed?
(a) To door of the Anatomists' Society building.
(b) To Hawthornden.
(c) To the university.
(d) To the almshouse hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the essential difference between Jack and Hazel that Jack was feeling at the end of Chapter 30?

2. Who was the figure talking to the doctor in the surgical theater?

3. Why did Jack and Hazel take just one Horse to the graveyard?

4. Why did Jack not want to go to Newcastle or the Americas for work?

5. What lie did Jack tell the Innkeeper so that he could go up to Munro's room?

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