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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Three Special Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe, even after losing Jennifer, about his relationship to patients?
(a) He feels he is a father figure to his patients.
(b) He thinks it is fine to be emotionally attached.
(c) He believes nurses should break bad news to parents for him.
(d) He believes he will cry whenever he loses a patient.

2. Why does the author say he felt the stigma of being poor more acutely?
(a) Because most of the kids at school were rich.
(b) Because his house was in need of repair.
(c) Because his clothes were dirty.
(d) Because he did not have a father.

3. What damage did the author do with a rock in "A Terrible Temper"?
(a) He broke his brother's model airplane.
(b) He broke a neighborhood kid's glasses and smashed his nose.
(c) He smashed a window of a business in town.
(d) He hit his mother with it.

4. What happened when the Hopkins team tried to put Beth's diseased hemisphere to sleep?
(a) They discovered that her speech control transferred to her good hemisphere.
(b) Her entire brain went to sleep.
(c) She slipped into a coma.
(d) She woke up.

5. How much blood did Maranda lose during the hemispherectomy?
(a) Nine pints.
(b) Twelve ounces.
(c) None.
(d) Two pints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the author to Schubert's Eighth Symphony (Unfinished)?

2. Where did the author turn when he believed he could not pass an exam?

3. In "A Terrible Temper," what does the author say had become a daily habit?

4. How did the author hurt a classmate who made him mad in "A Terrible Temper"?

5. How did the author and his brother often travel to Wilson Junior High?

(see the answer key)

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