View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what do Abby and Vivien tell Dr. Tarasoff they think the Bayside transplant team is doing?

2. What surprise about the malpractice lawsuits does Abby learn in Chapter 13?

3. What is Wonderland?

4. What is succinylcholine?

5. Who is waiting for Abby outside Mr. Parr's office in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What really happens behind the blue door in Chapter 19?

2. What does Abby ask Nina Voss to do in Chapter 18? Does she agree?

3. How does Abby react when Detective Bernard Katzka comes to speak to her about Mary Allen? Why?

4. Of whom does Yakov dream in Chapter 14? What does she look like?

5. What do Abby and Vivien ask Dr. Ivan Tarasoff to do in order to help with their investigation into Nina Voss' heart donor in Chapter 16?

6. How does Mary Allen die? Who pronounces her death?

7. How does Abby gain access to medical records of heart transplant patients in Chapter 17? For what reason?

8. What happens to Yakov at the end of Chapter 19? What does this suggest about his chances of survival?

9. Why does Helen Lewis from NEOB call Abby? What does she tell Abby?

10. Why is Abby's locker searched in Chapter 13? What is found?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who is Bernard Kaftka? What tragedy took place in his past? How did Kaftka react to that tragedy? What does Kaftka do for a living? How does he meet Abby? How do Abby and Kaftka find themselves thrown together? How does Kaftka nearly die in Abby's company? How does Kaftka rescue Abby in the end? What are Kaftka's feelings for Abby? Why does Kaftka not believe Abby when she insists she was not driving drunk the night of her accident? Does Kaftka come to believe her later? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Aaron Levi? How does Abby come to know him? How does the reader meet him? What kind of person is Aaron? Why is Aaron unhappy when he learns that Abby will be treating Nina Voss' post-op fever? Why does Aaron not show up at the hospital as his wife thought he would? What happens when everyone learns Aaron has died? What is the funeral like? What odd thing happens at the wake that causes Abby some concern? Where does Elaine Levi go later that causes Abby and a cop to wonder about Aaron's death? How did Aaron die? Why?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,035 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample