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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Konner say benefits from drugs for childhood hyperactivity?
(a) Children.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Drug companies.
(d) Doctors.

2. Where was the woman on the stretcher sent after Konner and his colleagues saw her in ER?
(a) Back home.
(b) An operating room.
(c) An intensive care unit.
(d) To the morgue.

3. What interest did Konner's medical training have in common with his previous training?
(a) Distribution of disease in populations.
(b) Human evolution.
(c) Cell development.
(d) Human behavior.

4. What is the branch of psychiatric medicine that complements Freud's psychoanalysis?
(a) Surgical treatment.
(b) Drug treatment.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Shock treatment.

5. What kind of treatment was Katherine Ballard most interested in administering?
(a) Shock treatment.
(b) Hypnosis therapy.
(c) Drug treatment.
(d) Talking cure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the surgeon order Konner to get rid of because it would be useless?

3. What was the nature of the first operation in which Konner participated?

4. What does a retractor do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Konner's first neurological examination.

2. How does Konner say that he dealt with Bigelow, the street person?

3. How does Konner say med school affected him personally?

4. How does Konner characterize Howard Cullen's condition?

5. How does Konner characterize the split between theories of psychiatric medicine?

6. What was the controversy around the patient Ruskin operated on?

7. What effect does Konner's opening anecdote have as a first taste of the book?

8. How does Konner contrast American medical diagnoses to African children's lives?

9. What does Konner say he finds unrealistic in TV doctor dramas?

10. What are Konner's feelings about surgery?

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