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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 is a direct donation?
2. What is the name of the sailboat Mark is racing in Chapter 10?
3. Who is Jeremiah Parr?
4. Who confronts Abby in the MICU in Chapter 5?
5. Who arrives late at Dr. Archer's for the party in Chapter 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Victor Voss do when he finds Abby in his wife's room in Chapter 9? What does Mark suggest Abby do about it?
2. What does Gregor do to Uncle Misha after the boys leave the apartment?
3. What does Mark tell Abby about the harvest at Wilcox Memorial Hospital that causes her to feel assured that the harvest took place there despite her earlier phone call? Who did the harvest?
4. What does Yakov do for a living before being taken to America by Nadiya and Gregor? For what reason?
5. What does Vivien do in response to Abby's question in Chapter 10 was it all worth it?
6. What goes wrong when Dr. Chao begins plans to transplant Karen Terrio's heart into Josh O'Day?
7. Why does Abby try so hard to impress Dr. Wettig while presenting her patient?
8. Why does Abby visit Nina Voss in Chapter 8? How does Nina Voss react to this visit?
9. Why is Mary Allen in the SICU? What is her prognosis?
10. Who is chosen to take the heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the overall lesson and/or controversy of this novel. This novel discusses some very important moral questions about modern medicine. Discuss what these moral questions are and how they are addressed in this novel. Cite examples or offer quotes from the novel to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following relationships in detail:
1) Abby and Mark
2) Abby and Kaftka
3) Abby and Yakov
4) Abby and Vivien.
Essay Topic 3
Abby is accused of medical malpractice several times in this novel. What is malpractice? What is someone claiming Abby did wrong? Why does Mary Allen's niece not want her aunt to get morphine? What is Abby overheard saying about administering morphine to Mary Allen? Why does Abby become angry and abusive toward the niece when she objects to the administration of morphine? Did Abby want to kill Mary Allen? What benefit would Abby get from killing Mary Allen? Why is Abby accused of this murder? What evidence is there? What is the end result of this evidence?
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