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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She woke up.
(c) She slipped into a coma.
(d) Her entire brain went to sleep.

2. What does the author say was the most harrowing moment of the surgery for Patrick and Benjamin, in "Separating the Twins"?
(a) Learning that the blood supply might run out.
(b) Separating the large venus sinuses.
(c) Fashioning new satittal veins.
(d) Forcing the boys into hypothermic arrest.

3. During what years was the author a resident at Johns Hopkins?
(a) 1985-1999.
(b) 1978-1982.
(c) 1974-1977.
(d) 1983-1988.

4. What did the author find a technique for that involves placing metal rings on the back and front of the skull?
(a) Finding the foramen ovale.
(b) Taking better x-rays of the brain.
(c) Curing headaches.
(d) Removing brain tumors.

5. How did patient Danielle's mother first learn about the author, in "Three Special Children"?
(a) The Phil Donahue show.
(b) Danielle's doctor referred him.
(c) An article in Ladies Home Journal.
(d) An entry in Encyclopedia Britannica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Long propose, months after the author's return to Baltimore?

2. Why does the author say he experiences less of a negative response from patients nowadays?

3. Why did Teresa Binder consider overdosing on sleeping pills in "Separating the Twins"?

4. What marveled the author about Danielle's parents, in "Three Special Children," when she died?

5. What did the author believe would happen if he did not give an injured patient a lobectomy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompted the author to apply to Johns Hopkins for his internship and residency?

2. How did the chief of surgery at Provident Hospital try to lure the author to work for him?

3. How did Theresa Binder, in "Separating the Twins," respond to the news that she was having Siamese twins?

4. What is Rasmussen's encephalitis?

5. Why did the author tell a resident at the hospital in Australia that he came from a large family?

6. Who does the author say he feels a self-imposed obligation to act as a role model for?

7. Describe Maranda Francisco's improvements after her hemispherectomy.

8. What is Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)?

9. Why did some doctors oppose a craniectomy for a patient named Charles in "Three Special Children"?

10. Why did Brian and Kathy Usher initially decide against the hemispherectomy for their daughter, Beth?

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