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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 the injection of succinylcholine say about Aaron Levi's death?

2. What is Abby doing to fill her time now that she is suspended from duties in the hospital?

3. What surprises Abby about what she finds in the Levi home in Chapter 16?

4. What does Abby mean in Chapter 18 when she suggests someone is generating organ donors?

5. What habit does Elaine say Aaron got into in the final years of his life as a member of the transplant team at Bayside?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the woman praying at Mary Allen's bedside in Chapter 11? What does she want Abby to do for Mary Allen?

2. What story does Abby tell Katzka and Lundquist in Chapter 18? Do they believe her?

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

4. What does Mr. Parr do to Abby in Chapter 13 after searching her locker? Why?

5. Where does Yakov see Nadiya take Aleksei in Chapter 19? Where does Yakov think Aleksei is going?

6. Why does Abby suspect that Mark is in on the sale of human organs? What danger does Vivien suggest this poses for Abby?

7. Why does Abby begin to think she is being followed by a van in Chapter 15? What does she do about it?

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the team values of the transplant team at Bayside. What does the transplant team expect of their team members? What do they tell Abby about their expectations where she is concerned? Is there anything unusual about these expectations? How do these expectations become more sinister as the plot continues to develop? What do these expectations have to do with Aaron Levi's death? With the money his wife found in a secret bank account? With his wife's disappearance? With the deaths of two other doctors?

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