This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September, Chapter 17: Patrick, Chapter 18: Armando, Chapter 19: The Committee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Armando's social worker described?
(a) Both emotionally invested, and extremely competent.
(b) Not very competent, but emotionally invested in her clients.
(c) Not very emotional, but extremely competent.
(d) Neither emotionally invested nor competent.

2. Howe does Hermann compare to Ben Taub and Methodist Hospital?
(a) It is more like Ben Taub.
(b) It is somewhere in between the two.
(c) It is nothing like either.
(d) It is more like Methodist Hospital.

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

4. What happens to Taylor near the end of Chapter 6?
(a) She develops a serious infection.
(b) She goes into cardiac arrest.
(c) She dies.
(d) Her kidneys fail.

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