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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. What does Delphine tell Carriscant?
(a) She is pregnant with his child.
(b) She is ending her affair with him.
(c) She is leaving to rejoin her husband.
(d) She is ill again.

2. Who does Carriscant say he thinks was the murderer?
(a) Sieverance.
(b) Cruz.
(c) Bobby.
(d) He has no idea.

3. How does Carriscant react when he performs an appendectomy?
(a) He becomes aroused.
(b) He refuses to do the surgery.
(c) He is worried that his diagnosis is incorrect.
(d) He is very sharp and decisive.

4. What happens to Carriscant's Chinese patient?
(a) He is killed by an accident.
(b) He sues Carriscant.
(c) He dies of septicemia.
(d) He is murdered by a gang of Philippines.

5. What does Bobby say about Carriscant regarding the two murders?
(a) That Carriscant could not have done the murders.
(b) He botched one of the autopsies.
(c) He is a suspect.
(d) Bobby thinks Carriscant knows who killed the men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backs Cruz when he calls Carriscant on the carpet/

2. What do Carriscant and Delphine do in his office?

3. What does Seiverance announce?

4. What hobby does Delphine take up in order to have an excuse to leave home?

5. About what do Kay and Carriscant chat at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cruz show Carriscant in Cruz's operating room and what does Carriscant think of what he is seeing?

2. Who calls in Carriscant to examine his ill wife?

3. Why does Carriscant start a fire in Sieverance's shed?

4. What does Carriscant say about possible motives for the death of the soldiers?

5. Why does Carriscant fight Wieland?

6. What details about her life does Delphine tell Carriscant?

7. What do Bobby and Carriscant discuss about the recent murder?

8. What happens to Carriscant before he can flee the country?

9. What does Delphine tell Carriscant that makes him start planning to flee the country with her?

10. What is the outcome of Carriscant's trial?

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