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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the author quit his job at Young and Rubicum Advertising?

2. What year does the author say he no longer waited for his father to come home from work?

3. Who was Alma Whittley?

4. What impression did the author have that his grades reinforced?

5. How often did the author wear an ROTC uniform at school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors led to the author being a poor student at Higgins Elementary School?

2. How does the author explain, in "College Choices" the miracle he experiences on a class exam?

3. How did the author's mother protect him and his brother?

4. What role did the English teacher, Mrs. Miller, play in the author's life, in "ROTC Triumph"?

5. What lessons does the author learn from working at Ford Motor Company?

6. Why was the author impressed in the ROTC by a student named Sharper?

7. Why didn't the author get the job he was promised in the summer of 1971?

8. Describe capping.

9. What are the reasons the author gives in "A Serious Step" for not being ready for love?

10. What experience at college helped the author wash away some of his cockiness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author treat people in other professions? What experiences influence how the author treats people outside the medical field? What has the author's mother taught him about people who work different jobs?

Essay Topic 2

What responsibility does the author feel to the Black community? What responsibility does he feel to all humans? Why does he pass up an opportunity that would allow him to help more Black patients?

Essay Topic 3

Is it better to allow someone to die naturally or to proceed with a risky surgery that may or may not save them? Compare personal beliefs to the author's.

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