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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. Where was the television station where Christine Drury was the overnight anchorwoman?
(a) Fort Wayne.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Bloomington.

2. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

3. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

4. How old was Noe's husband when she plead to guilty to killing her children?
(a) 77.
(b) 80.
(c) 81.
(d) 78.

5. How old was Victor Caselli?
(a) 54.
(b) 61.
(c) 43.
(d) 37.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

2. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?

3. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

4. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?

5. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

2. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

3. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

4. What is a core predicament in medicine?

5. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

6. What was it like for Bratton to be in the hyperbaric chamber?

7. What does it mean that "there is an art to being a patient"?

8. What does Gawande say was the relationship between doctor and patient over a decade ago?

9. What are some ways that people have gotten necrotizing fasciitis?

10. How incapacitated did Amy Fitzgerald become during her pregnancy?

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