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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is causing Patrick excess suffering?
(a) His nurses' incompetence.
(b) His family's interference.
(c) His antibiotics.
(d) His doctors' indecisiveness.

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

3. What is Patrick's central IV line for?
(a) It drains fluid from the area around his heart.
(b) It delivers morphine.
(c) It delivers antibiotics.
(d) It delivers the nutrients his body needs.

4. What is the problem with Taylor being on a ventilator?
(a) It scars her lung tissue.
(b) It interferes with other treatments.
(c) Her parents' insurance won't cover it.
(d) It requires her to be dependent on medication.

5. What happens to Patrick's line, as a result of his tampering?
(a) It breaks, and he goes into cardiac arrest.
(b) It gets increasingly infected, and needs to be replaced.
(c) Nothing, but the hospital staff are angry with him.
(d) It is disconnected, and they try to find another way to deliver his medications.

6. What hospital is Fran rushed to, a few days after her check-up?
(a) Methodist Hospital.
(b) San Jacinto.
(c) Hermann.
(d) Ben Taub.

7. How does Patrick feel about his condition?
(a) He hates living the way he does, and is, at times, suicidal.
(b) He tries not to focus on it, and just wants to be normal.
(c) He doesn't really understand the severity of his condition.
(d) He is hyper-aware of his condition, to the point of being a hypochondriac.

8. What does Patrick sometimes do to his IV line?
(a) Pulls it out.
(b) Blows air into it.
(c) Cuts it open.
(d) Pollutes it with feces and dirt.

9. How does Armando's family feel about his condition?
(a) He is much worse than they had imagined.
(b) Due to a language barrier, they are unable to fully understand it.
(c) They are relieved that it isn't as bad as they feared.
(d) They are unaware of his condition.

10. Who debates the question of Patrick's surgery and medical status?
(a) His doctor and parents.
(b) Specialists from other hospitals.
(c) His doctor and nurses.
(d) The ethics committee.

11. How does Patrick feel about the decision made in Chapter 7?
(a) He doesn't appear to understand when they attempt to explain it.
(b) He throws a fit, screaming and trying to rip out his IVs.
(c) He solemnly agrees with the doctor.
(d) They don't bother him with it.

12. What do Fran and Carey want to do with Taylor at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) They want to move her to another hospital.
(b) They want to put her on a DNR.
(c) They want to take her off the ventilator and see how she does.
(d) They want to bring her home and let her die in peace.

13. What happened to Armando?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He fell off of a ladder.
(c) He was driving a car, and hit a tree.
(d) He was walking, and was hit by a car.

14. Who is looking at the note at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Sharon Crandell.
(b) Eugene Adcock.
(c) Javier and Sally.
(d) Lin Weeks and her secretary.

15. How long was Patrick's central IV line supposed to last?
(a) For just a short time.
(b) For the rest of his life.
(c) For as long as he needed it.
(d) Indefinitely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Jake?

2. How does Patrick feel about the hospital?

3. What do Fran and Carey begin to worry about, as the weeks go on?

4. What happens on the last day of May?

5. What did Armando do when he was 17?

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