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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 are members of the Ben Carson Club at Old Court Middle School in the Baltimore suburbs required to do?
(a) Follow the author's "Think Big" commands.
(b) Watch no more than three tevelvision programs a week and read at least two books.
(c) Meet with a mentor every week.
(d) Work in teams devising original science investigations.

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

3. 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.

4. Before the author left for his interview in Baltimore, he decided that he wanted to be himself and be accepted or rejected by _____ and not _____.
(a) Being himself/Because he projects some kind of image through a super-sales job.
(b) His grades/By the mistakes he has made.
(c) His recommendations/By anything he says.
(d) Pitching his metal ring technique/By being modest.

5. What happened to Craig Warnick on June 19, 1988, in "Craig and Susan"?
(a) He graduated from college.
(b) He was admitted to the hospital through the emergency room.
(c) He found out he out he had Von Hippel-Lindau.
(d) He had surgery on his tumor and cyst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual solution did one doctor suggest Maranda try twice a day for her seizures?

2. What does the author say a "four plus" did at the hospital?

3. What significant sign of recovery did Maranda show after her hemispherectomy?

4. Denise's surgery, in "Little Beth," confirmed for the author that when people know their _____ and they know their job, it doesn't matter who _____ them.

5. What celebrity came to Johns Hopkins to visit Beth while she was comatose?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the letter T stand for in the author's "Think Big" acrostic?

3. What happened at Johns Hopkins in 1985 that allowed the author more time?

4. What was controversial about Denise Baca's hemispherectomy?

5. How did Dr. Long handle a White patient who did not want a Black doctor on her case?

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

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

8. Why does the author say "no knowledge is ever wasted," in "Another Step Forward"?

9. What complications did Danielle experience after her surgery in "Three Special Children"?

10. What were some of the possible outcomes of Maranda's hemispherectomy, in "A Girl Named Maranda"?

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