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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dr. Harrison rate Konner's performance?

2. What part of child birth didn't Konner like?

3. Who gave the order to have Geraldine intubated?

4. Why was Konner's condition ironic?

5. What is the key cause of "R.P.T.A." (Rapidly Progressive Testicular Atrophy)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is RPTA, and how did it affect Konner?

2. Describe Konner's last elective rotation.

3. How does Konner characterize pathology and its place in the spectrum of medical services?

4. What does Konner say made his rounds poignant under Dr. Downing?

5. How does Konner characterize Dr. Sally Brass?

6. Describe Konner's conversation with the friend who wanted to apply to med school.

7. What controversy surrounded patient Geraldine's death?

8. What does Konner say Dr. Suskauer recommended for delivering babies?

9. How did Konner and Dr. Corwin treat the patient with Pickwickian syndrome?

10. Describe Konner's experience assisting his friend Barbara's birth.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effect did medical training have on Konner as a man outside of medical training? How did his training affect his marriage and his family? What were his wife's views on his training? What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping his personal life out of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend 'Becoming a Doctor'? For what purposes would you recommend 'Becoming a Doctor,' and to what type of reader would you recommend it ? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

What are the different narrative threads Konner weaves throughout 'Becoming a Doctor'? One is the simple chronological experience of med school. What developments take place, and how does Konner's personality, or how do his attitudes about medicine or illness or his own identity change throughout the course of the book? Where do these themes intersect? How are they developed?

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