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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. What happened when the Hopkins team tried to put Beth's diseased hemisphere to sleep?

2. What does the author believe, even after losing Jennifer, about his relationship to patients?

3. What did the author and Dr. Udvarhelyi end up talking about extensively in the interview for Johns Hopkins?

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

5. In "Family Affairs," why does the author believe his wife, Candy, is able to cope with his long hours?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was unusual about Craig being able to eat a whole plate of spaghetti, six weeks after his surgery?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Rasmussen's encephalitis?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the author able to build strong, supportive relationships in his life? How does he support others? Why are some of the people who are close to him unsupportive? How does the author react to unsupportive people?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author deal with failure? How does he deal with disappointment? How does he deal with stress? What can one learn from the author's approach to problems?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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