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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Obstetrics: The Anatomical Volcano.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Konner characterize his work with Dr. Haley?
(a) He felt like a beginner.
(b) He felt like he didn't know anything.
(c) He felt like a fraud.
(d) He felt like a doctor of equal stature.

2. What is intubation?
(a) Placing a tube into a patient's ear.
(b) Placing a breathing tube into a patient's throat.
(c) Placing a tube for intravenous fluids into a patient's arm.
(d) Placing a tube into a patient's bladder.

3. What did Konner deliver twice, in his first week?
(a) Twins.
(b) Triplets.
(c) Still births.
(d) Down syndrome babies.

4. Why was Konner distressed by the first part of the National Medical Board Examinations?
(a) He was afraid that he would not get a higher score than his class rival.
(b) He did not know if he would be able to get a scholarship.
(c) He was not confident that he could score above the middle of the class.
(d) He was afraid that he would not pass.

5. What did Konner think was unrealistic about the doctor he saw on TV?
(a) He had no life outside the hospital.
(b) He cared about his patients.
(c) He was relentless in his pursuit of nurses.
(d) He got away with gross incompetence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the surgeons response when Dr. Ramirez asked Konner to intubate?

2. What did the article Konner find in his last week of surgery argue?

3. What feelings in the doctors does Konner say he understood after spending time with long-term incurable patients?

4. What was the result when Konner broke one of the rules about which patients he could help?

5. What does Konner say the younger students do not have, which older students do?

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