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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank describe Laurence to others?
(a) As a companion.
(b) As a friend.
(c) As his roommate.
(d) As a colleague.

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

3. What happened to Laurence's parents?
(a) They abandoned him and his sister.
(b) They disowned him when he chose to become a doctor.
(c) They were doing missionary work in Sudan.
(d) They were killed when he was a baby.

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

5. What is the setting of the story as it opens?
(a) Home.
(b) School.
(c) Government building.
(d) Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what position was Dr. Ngema supposed to be promoted?

3. What did Laurence do to the room he shares with Frank, that made Frank unhappy?

4. Which word best describes how Laurence treats every patient he sees?

5. What does Frank find on his own walk after Laurence leaves to find the village?

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