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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. Who was Saint Luke’s Hospital’s risk manager at the time that Charlie Cullen worked there?

2. On what date does the author open Part I: Chapter 13?

3. Who was Mrs. Jin Kyung Han’s cardiologist at Somerset?

4. What was the former name of the Greystone Psychiatric Hospital?

5. On what date did Charles Cullen fill out an application for employment at Somerset Medical Center?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Charles Cullen and his wife purchase a home, according to the author in Part I: Chapter 3? What kind of work did Cullen’s wife do?

2. How does the author describe Charles Cullen’s feelings about the changes in the dynamic of male to female nurses in Part I: Chapter 19?

3. What was discussed in the conference call at Somerset Medical in Part I: Chapter 26?

4. What feelings did Charles Cullen have for Michelle Tomlinson? How did Cullen behave toward Tomlinson after their first date?

5. When did Charles Cullen begin working at Somerset Medical Center? What did Charles think of Amy Loughren when they met?

6. Whom did Dr. Steven Marcus contact regarding the deaths at Somerset Medical Center? Why?

7. Who advised the medical facilities in and around Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, against hiring Charles Cullen in 2002?

8. What suspicious situation arose at Saint Barnabas in 1991? How does the author describe this incident?

9. How was Francis Henry killed in 1998? What did the hospital conclude of his death?

10. What was Nancy Doherty’s position at Somerset? Whom did Doherty speak with on the phone in Part I: Chapter 25?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the figure of Amy Loughren at Somerset Medical Center. What led up to the friendship between Amy and Charles? How did Amy relate to Charles? What similarities in their pasts did Amy and Charles share?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the obsessive qualities of Charles Cullen. How did Cullen’s obsession with Nurse Julie mirror his previous stalking of Michelle Tomlinson? How did Nurse Julie respond to Charlie’s admiration? Why were these issues not addressed by hospital administration?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the drugs discovered in the sharps bin at Saint Luke’s and Charles Cullen’s motivations for stealing and stashing these medications. Why do you think Cullen used the sharps bin as a storage place? How many of the drugs found here were capable of killing someone?

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