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

2. What does Konner say Dr. Ruskin bragged about having spent the weekend doing?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Playing golf.
(d) Chopping wood.

3. What was Konner's experience in Africa?
(a) As an anthropologist.
(b) As a nurse.
(c) As a soldier.
(d) As a pilot.

4. Where do first-year medical students' clinical experiences take place?
(a) Large hospital groups.
(b) By shadowing individual doctors.
(c) One-on-one tutorials.
(d) Small hospital groups.

5. How does Konner characterize obstetrics?
(a) A nervous situation of waiting to see whether a birth will even require medical care.
(b) An artificial intrusion of Western medicine into human life.
(c) An emergency situation that usually has a good outcome.
(d) A horrifying spectacle of women in intense pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Konner think was unrealistic about the doctor he saw on TV?

2. What insight did Konner get over his break?

3. What does asepsis mean?

4. How does Konner characterize the anesthesiologist?

5. Why was Konner distressed by the first part of the National Medical Board Examinations?

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