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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Laurence continually avoid?
(a) What does he hope to learn at the hospital?
(b) Why did he become a doctor?
(c) When will he be leaving the hospital?
(d) Why did he come to the hospital?

2. Why does Frank still wear his wedding ring?
(a) His divorce is not final yet.
(b) He wants others to think he is married.
(c) He still loves his wife.
(d) He needs to keep up the lie with Maria.

3. From what was the young illegal immigrant patient suffering?
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Mental illness.

4. Which of the following is an appropriate synonym for the term austere as used in the following sentence: The bedroom was austere.
(a) Fussy.
(b) Severe.
(c) Plain.
(d) Grave.

5. Which of the following characters had a failed marriage that is revealed in Chapter 3?
(a) Maria.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Frank.
(d) Laurence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Maria say that she has been where she is?

2. What does Ngema suggest Frank take Waters on?

3. Why did Frank originally come to the hospital?

4. Sometimes when Frank and Maria were together what comforted him?

5. What does Frank call Laurence at the end of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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