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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Taylor's appearance like in Chapter 13?
(a) She is gaining weight, and appears healthier.
(b) She is swollen, and her skin is stretching and splitting.
(c) She is turning blue around her lips and extremities.
(d) She is thin and delicate-looking.

2. What happens to Landon, as the result of a high fever?
(a) He goes blind.
(b) He has a seizure.
(c) He gets brain damage.
(d) He dies.

3. When Javier faces Patrick with a decision about his treatment, in Chapter 20, which option does Patrick choose?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Neither.
(c) Both.
(d) More IVs.

4. What is expected to happen to Hermann's financial situation?
(a) It is expected to worsen.
(b) It is expected to stay much the same.
(c) No one really knows.
(d) It is expected to improve.

5. What do Lin, Randy and Cindy discuss at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) What to tell Armando's family.
(b) Whether to tell Armando about his condition.
(c) Whether to take Armando off of life support.
(d) Where to send Armando.

6. Who is Hermann's chief pediatric surgeon?
(a) Richard Andrussy.
(b) David MacDougall.
(c) Hazel Mitchell.
(d) Lin Weeks.

7. What is the situation of Hermann at the time the book was written?
(a) It is small, nearly bankrupt, and losing patients rapidly.
(b) It is large and prestigious, but in debt and with a reputation marred by scandal.
(c) It is large and prestigious, having solved many of its financial problems and restored its reputation.
(d) It is the largest hospital in the state, with the largest percentage of charity cases.

8. 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 hospital hired fewer doctors in order to purchase more up-to-date equipment.
(c) The pediatric wing was larger, and the oncology wing shrank.
(d) The hospital was founded as a teaching hospital.

9. What device helps Armando to talk?
(a) None; he still can't talk.
(b) A talking trach.
(c) A text-to-speech device.
(d) A TTY machine.

10. What gives Fran and Carey solace, regarding their decision about Taylor?
(a) A vision that Fran has, in which Taylor visits her.
(b) Knowing that the ethics committee agreed with their decision.
(c) Knowing that ten years later, there is still no cure or treatment for what Taylor had.
(d) Talking to other parents who had to make the same decision.

11. What emotions is Armando experiencing in Chapter 9?
(a) Peace and acceptance.
(b) Resignation and depression.
(c) Cautious hope and optimism.
(d) Panic and despair.

12. What is Armando's family status?
(a) Married.
(b) Widowed.
(c) Single, but living with his girlfriend.
(d) Divorced.

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

14. What is Margo Cox's profession?
(a) Pediatric surgeon.
(b) Neurologist.
(c) Neonatologist.
(d) Oncologist.

15. Who is Dahlia?
(a) Armando's speech therapist.
(b) Armando's niece.
(c) Armando's sister.
(d) Armando's occupational therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time elapsed between the events, and the book being written?

2. How does Claire give birth to Landon?

3. Why does Fran want to remove Taylor's ventilator?

4. How is Armando's social worker described?

5. Who is the financial administrator at Hermann?

(see the answer keys)

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