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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. How does Abby feel about riding on Mark's sailboat in Chapter 10?
(a) She wants to sail to Europe on it.
(b) She is seasick the whole time.
(c) She wants to pilot it.
(d) She loves it.

2. Who are Nadiya and Gregor?
(a) Friends of Uncle Misha.
(b) Strangers who have come to take the boys and get them adopted in America.
(c) Yakov's aunt and uncle.
(d) The parents who have come to adopt Yakov and his three siblings.

3. What does Abby learn V stands for in VMI?
(a) Voss.
(b) Vicious.
(c) Victory.
(d) Victor.

4. What does Dr. Abby DiMatteo believes is causing Karen Terrio's unresponsiveness?
(a) A midbrain hemorrhage.
(b) Brain contusion.
(c) Brain swelling.
(d) A broken skull.

5. What does Nina Voss overhear her husband saying to the doctors in Chapter 3?
(a) She needs to die faster.
(b) She needs a new heart at any cost.
(c) She is costing him too much money with her illness.
(d) She is too young to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives late at Dr. Archer's for the party in Chapter 3?

2. What does Abby find on the x-ray of the post-op fever patient's chest in Chapter 8?

3. What is Yakov's favorite place on ship as described in Chapter 7?

4. What emotional things does Yakov tell the captain of the ship he does not do in in Chapter 7?

5. How does Mark decide to treat the post-op fever in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is chosen to take the heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 4?

2. What does Gregor do to Uncle Misha after the boys leave the apartment?

3. Why is there such an abrupt end to Mark and Abby's sailing trip in Chapter 10?

4. What does Vivien do in response to Abby's question in Chapter 10 was it all worth it?

5. Who attempts to stop the delivery of Karen Terrio's heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 5?

6. Why does the transplant team invite Abby to join them on a heart transplant in chapter 6? What is the reason Abby might have refused?

7. What does Abby say about the morphine she orders for Mary Allen in Chapter 6?

8. Why does Abby try so hard to impress Dr. Wettig while presenting her patient?

9. Why does Abby call Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Vermont about Nina Voss' donor in Chapter 8?

10. Why is Mary Allen in the SICU? What is her prognosis?

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