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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: A Girl Named Maranda.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does the author say he worked at Wayne State University in one of the biology laboratories?
(a) The year after he graduated from college.
(b) The summer after his freshman year at Yale.
(c) The summer between his junior and senior year of high school.
(d) During spring break of his sophomore year at Yale.

3. Who does the author complain, in "Another Step Forward," wouldn't talk to the "common people" like ward clerks or aides?
(a) Celebrity patients.
(b) The veteran nurses.
(c) Wealthy families.
(d) A few of the doctors.

4. How did the author comfort himself about his capping on other students?
(a) He said it was not his fault there were ugly people at school.
(b) He said that everyone did it, and it was the only way to survive.
(c) He said he would only do it until he got some better clothes.
(d) He said he thought his father would approve.

5. What hymn does the author say dissolves his negativity?
(a) "Amazing Grace."
(b) "Just As I Am."
(c) "Jesus Is All the World to Me."
(d) "Nearer My God to Thee."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "College Choices," why did the author only apply to one college?

2. During the author's intense year as chief resident, he learned the special skills that transform the _____ along with his hands, eyes and intuition into _____.

3. During what years was the author a resident at Johns Hopkins?

4. In "A Terrible Temper," the author realized that if people could make him _____, they could ______.

5. What college group was Candy involved in that amazed the author?

(see the answer key)

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