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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with the patient Ina?
(a) She had scum under her breasts.
(b) She threw up all over the place.
(c) She smelled badly.
(d) She was all slimy.

2. What joke played by an intern recently got the hospital sued?
(a) Switching someone' s meds for placebos to prove a point.
(b) They wrote on a chart that a patient was left on a bedpan until ulcers developed.
(c) Telling the family someone died when they didn't.
(d) They wrote on a chart that the patient peed all over the bed and that it turned purple.

3. What does Roy use to remember medical facts?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Mnenomic device.
(c) Acronym.
(d) Paper.

4. What was the woman with saggy eyes asking for?
(a) New eyes.
(b) Plastic surgery.
(c) Eyedrops.
(d) Eye tape.

5. Who dies instead of the gomers, according to the interns?
(a) Drug addicts.
(b) Babies.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Young people.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the novel, Roy reflects on his internship year while vacationing in what country?

2. In Chapter 1, what is mentioned by Roy which he sees drip off of Berry's face?

3. The Runt was so nervous at work that he started doing what?

4. What character compares life to a man's genitals?

5. What does "gomers go to ground" mean?

(see the answer key)

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