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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. What crude behavior does Konner describe from a resident physician?
(a) Snickering at a woman's diagnosis.
(b) Making racist/sexist jokes with the patients.
(c) Insulting the interns in front of the patients.
(d) Exposing himself to a patient.

2. What luxury did Konner's relationship with Dr. Haley allow him?
(a) He could diagnose patients by himself.
(b) He could rely on Dr. Haley when he was uncertain.
(c) He could make more money.
(d) He could take more time off.

3. Where did Konner go at the end of his last shift, when he wanted to reflect on the trauma patients he treated?
(a) The bar.
(b) For a walk with another intern.
(c) Home.
(d) The chapel.

4. When did walk-rounds begin in the Emergency Ward?
(a) 6:30 a.m.
(b) 4 a.m.
(c) 8:00 p.m.
(d) Twelve noon.

5. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?
(a) He went out of his way to take care of his patients and their families.
(b) He was brusque and aloof.
(c) He was gentle and non-disruptive.
(d) He was incompetent and his heavy drinking obscured his medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Petey begun to do at age seventeen?

2. How does Konner characterize the anesthesiologist?

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

4. How did Marty Wentworth and Dr. Carter embarrass themselves in front of their colleagues?

5. What restrictions did Konner have to observe after scrubbing in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What explanation does Konner give for why he wrote this book?

3. What was Konner's second experience in anesthesiology like?

4. What crude resident behavior was Konner appalled by?

5. What lesson does Konner say he learned from John Williams?

6. How does Konner say that Marty Wentworth and Dr. Carter embarrassed themselves?

7. Describe Konner's first 'Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club'.

8. Describe Konner's first neurological examination.

9. How does Konner characterize his medical student colleagues?

10. How would you describe Konner's tone and language in the opening anecdote?

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