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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: Heartbreak.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?
(a) Get a bad grade.
(b) Skip class.
(c) Get a girlfriend.
(d) Become one of the guys.

2. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?
(a) Tutor his friends.
(b) Work at a gas station.
(c) Play basketball.
(d) Shoplift clothes at the local department store.

3. What gift does the author say has been an invaluable asset as a surgeon?
(a) His ability to attract friends.
(b) His physical coordination.
(c) His ability to see in three dimensions.
(d) His aptitude for math.

4. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His shirt.
(c) His backpack.
(d) His pencil.

5. In "A Boy's Big Problem," why does the author say he hated to buy bread or milk at the store?
(a) He had to use food stamps and feared a friend might see him.
(b) It took away from his study time.
(c) He says the people at the store treated him rudely.
(d) His mom never sent him with enough money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Yale admissions office pay for the author and Candy to do before Thanksgiving 1972?

2. What does the author believe, even after losing Jennifer, about his relationship to patients?

3. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?

4. Which of Candy's three college majors does the author say she eventually dropped?

5. What concept allowed Maranda to manage well without the left half of her brain?

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