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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through July, Chapter 8: The Hospital.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the hospital's founder get rich?
(a) He got a high-paying executive job.
(b) He inherited a large sum of money.
(c) He won the lottery.
(d) He invested in oil.

2. What changed as a result of the courts' revisions to the founder's will?
(a) Charity care shrunk, as the hospital became increasingly unable to afford it.
(b) The pediatric wing was larger, and the oncology wing shrank.
(c) The hospital was founded as a teaching hospital.
(d) The hospital hired fewer doctors in order to purchase more up-to-date equipment.

3. How does Fran get to the hospital?
(a) On foot.
(b) By ambulance.
(c) By car.
(d) By helicopter.

4. What initially happened to the money that the founder left behind for the construction of the hospital?
(a) It was distributed amongst his heirs.
(b) It was used in a variety of scandals.
(c) It was used to finance an election campaign.
(d) It was given to the state because he had no heirs.

5. What does Patrick's illness do to him?
(a) It makes him unable to absorb nutrition from the food he eats.
(b) It makes his intestines unable to extract the water from the food he eats.
(c) Waste stays in his intestines, and damages his intestinal tissue.
(d) It makes him unable to digest seeds and vegetable matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Victoria Dimas?

2. What does Patrick sometimes do to his IV line?

3. Who is looking at the note at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What doctor do Fran and Carey meet when they get to the hospital?

5. What decision is made, in Chapter 7, regarding Patrick?

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