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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Konner characterize Freddy Robertson?
(a) Competent.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Amenable.
(d) Arrogant.

2. What was Konner's previous training in?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Anthropology.

3. What was Konner's status during the anecdote that opens the book?
(a) Observer.
(b) Intern.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Med student.

4. What does Konner say he tried to hide from the woman on whom he had to perform a neurological exam?
(a) He was attracted to her.
(b) He had never performed this exam before.
(c) He thought she has severe problems.
(d) He was sick himself.

5. What is the immigrant neurosurgeon's rule, when Konner makes rounds with him?
(a) Touch the patient.
(b) Talk to the patient.
(c) Read the chart first.
(d) Spend as little time as possible with the patient.

6. What behavior of John Williams' embarrassed Konner?
(a) He told a patient abruptly that they only had a few months to live.
(b) He walked away from a patient's question.
(c) He was known to have affairs with the staff.
(d) He callously described a patient's discomfort to a group of interns.

7. How does Konner say he reacts to this split between methodologies?
(a) He sides with the psychopharmacologists.
(b) He sides with Freud.
(c) He feels conflicted.
(d) He prefers an altogether different approach.

8. What does Konner say was keeping him tired?
(a) His day job.
(b) Problems in his personal life.
(c) Trying to do several rotations at once.
(d) Nightly assignments.

9. What kinds of cases is Katherine Ballard interested in?
(a) Psychopaths.
(b) Borderline cases.
(c) Artists.
(d) Neurotics.

10. What did Mike Colucci do by mistake?
(a) Removed the wrong organ.
(b) Failed to anesthetize the patient property.
(c) Cut the cystic artery.
(d) Made the incision in the wrong place.

11. What feelings in the doctors does Konner say he understood after spending time with long-term incurable patients?
(a) Patience.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Animosity.
(d) Bitterness.

12. How long does Konner say it took for the motorcycle accident victim to recover enough to be transferred to O.R.?
(a) Fifteen hours.
(b) Fifteen minutes.
(c) Fifteen seconds.
(d) Fifty minutes.

13. What does Konner say is typical of brain disease?
(a) Identity loss.
(b) Suicidal thoughts.
(c) Depression.
(d) Aggression.

14. What was Konner's Uncle Bobby's role in Konner's life?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Nemesis.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Hero.

15. How often were walk-rounds performed in the psychiatric ward?
(a) Three times a week.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Daily.
(d) Twice a day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were in the group of interns seeing patients on rounds?

2. What does asepsis mean?

3. At what age did Konner begin his first rotation?

4. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?

5. What is Howard Cullen's diagnosis?

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