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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. Pete asks Ferguson to watch the floor while he leaves ______________________.
(a) To take a nap.
(b) To change clothes.
(c) To get a sandwich.
(d) To make a phone call.

2. What does Dr. Levine encourage Dr. Ferguson to do?
(a) Treat his time with Dr. Hochberg as valuable and unique.
(b) Be sure to get in good with Dr. Hochberg for promotions.
(c) Get a membership at a good country club.
(d) Take golf lessons from his golf pro.

3. What interrupts the intense conversation between Laura and Ferguson?
(a) Another intern.
(b) A text message.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A page over the loud speaker.

4. Who is the shabbily dressed young man?
(a) Dr. Leonard.
(b) Dr. Levinson.
(c) Dr. Levine.
(d) Dr. Leopold.

5. What does Ferguson say that doctors will have to give up in order to do what they have to do?
(a) Teaching assistants.
(b) Big caseloads.
(c) Families.
(d) Outside influences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ferguson and Barbara do after discussing their lives in the medical field?

2. Who is the more senior nurse who enters Dorothy's room?

3. What does Ferguson do with the hypodermic of insulin?

4. Where does Mr. Hudson have pain?

5. What do Mr. and Mrs. Smith tell Dr. Cunningham about their daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the discussion about young doctors between Hochberg and McCabe?

2. What does Laura do when Ferguson tells her he had an affair with Barbara?

3. How is Laura contrasted against Mrs. D'Andrea?

4. Who is Levine and how is he introduced in the play?

5. How does the author establish the upcoming conflict between Ferguson and Cunningham?

6. How has the Depression affected the hospital's financial situation?

7. What shocking information does Spencer reveal to Hochberg at the conclusion of the meeting/

8. What are some of the other elements that are foreshadowed in this scene?

9. What happens that Cunningham threatens to have Ferguson brought up on disciplinary charges?

10. What can be gleaned from Ferguson's rhetorical question about why this bad situation with Barbara is happening to him?

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