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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Stone send a telegram to Hema?
(a) Marion is on his deathbed.
(b) He wants to see Shiva.
(c) Genet is dying.
(d) He wants to know about Mary's letter.

2. What does Marion find out about the visiting doctor?
(a) He works in Atlanta.
(b) He was born in Africa.
(c) He is Thomas Stone.
(d) He is looking for another resident.

3. Why has Tsige seen Genet?
(a) She is a first stop for many immigrants from Ethiopia.
(b) She visits people in prison.
(c) Hema asks Tsige to find Genet.
(d) Genet wrote her from Africa.

4. About what does Rosina complain regarding Genet?
(a) She stays out too late.
(b) All the boys are chasing her.
(c) She will not clean the house.
(d) She stays on the phone too much.

5. What does General Mebratu's brother do to him during the coup attempt?
(a) Shoot him in the head.
(b) Breaks his leg.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Talks him out of the coup.

6. How has Thomas felt most of his life?
(a) Anxious and depressed.
(b) Calm and peaceful.
(c) Happy and energetic.
(d) Angry and resentful.

7. What does Marion attend when he is in Boston?
(a) A seminar Stone is giving.
(b) An opera.
(c) A medical conference on fistulas.
(d) A Boston Pop Symphony Concert.

8. How is Mebratu sentenced to die?
(a) Electric chair.
(b) Firing squad.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Lethal injection.

9. What does Genet do after they eat breakfast?
(a) She leaves.
(b) She goes to the hospital.
(c) She goes back to bed.
(d) She watches television.

10. What did Marion do when Ghosh became ill?
(a) Concentrated all his efforts on caring for him.
(b) Withdrew emotionally from the family.
(c) Thought about quitting medicine.
(d) Reconciled with Shiva.

11. How do the rich hospitals collect organs from Marion's hospital?
(a) By taxi cab.
(b) By motorcycle courier.
(c) By helicopter.
(d) Through the police.

12. What does Marion do at Stone's apartment?
(a) Has dinner with Stone.
(b) He does not go to Stone's apartment.
(c) Breaks into it and trashes it.
(d) Steals any pictures Stone has of Mary.

13. What would happen to Marion if his hospital closes?
(a) He would start at another hospital where he left off.
(b) He would have to restart his residency.
(c) He would lose his visa for America.
(d) He would have to quit medicine.

14. What happens to the patient when Popsy makes an incision?
(a) He nicks an artery.
(b) The bowel is perforated.
(c) Nothing happens.
(d) The incision bleeds too much.

15. What does Marion do when he's not working at connecting with Ghosh in prison?
(a) Writing a novel.
(b) Reading medical books.
(c) Building model airplanes.
(d) Dating Genet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Chief Resident anxious to impress the visiting doctor?

2. What surprises Marion about his arrival in New York?

3. What do the nurses tell Marion to do with Dr. Popsy?

4. What is Ghosh's final wish to Marion?

5. What does the Chief Resident do in front of a visiting doctor?

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