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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 does Abby find in her car when she leaves the hospital in Chapter 9?
2. What is MICU?
3. What does Vivien tell Abby when she suggests she take some of the blame for the Josh O'Day drama?
4. Where does Abby suggest the post-op fever is coming from in her patient in Chapter 9?
5. How does Vince Lawry cause the accident that injures Karen Terrio?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is chosen to take the heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 4?
2. Why does Abby call Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Vermont about Nina Voss' donor in Chapter 8?
3. Why is there such an abrupt end to Mark and Abby's sailing trip in Chapter 10?
4. 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?
5. What does Vivien do in response to Abby's question in Chapter 10 was it all worth it?
6. Who attempts to stop the delivery of Karen Terrio's heart to Mass Gen in Chapter 5?
7. 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?
8. What makes Yakov think the men on board his freighter ship are doing something illegal?
9. What causes the accident that leads to Karen Terrio's brain injury?
10. What does Yakov do for a living before being taken to America by Nadiya and Gregor? For what reason?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nina Voss believes her husband loves her too much? What does that mean? Is it possible to love someone too much? How is Victor Voss making Nina unhappy as she heals from her first transplant surgery? How does Nina feel about this? How does Nina react when she learns her husband might have paid for her new heart? How does Nina feel about her marriage at the end of the novel? How does Nina feel about her impending death? What does this say about Nina's character? How does Nina's character and convictions compare to Victor's?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the setting of the novel in detail, including discussion about each of the following:
1) Bayside Hospital
2) Massachusetts General Hospital
3) Boston
4) The freight ship.
Essay Topic 3
Who is Mark Hodell? How does Abby come to live with Mark? What is their relationship like? How does Abby feel about Mark in the beginning of the novel? How does their relationship change? For what reason? Why does Mark turn on Abby? What did Abby do to hurt Mark? Why is Mark working with the wrong people? What do they have on Mark that forces him to work with them? Is Mark happy with this criminal career? How does the reader know how Mark feels about his situation? What happens to Mark in the end? Is this something Mark deserved? Explain.
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