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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 is the first disadvantage listed of all the specialties except psychiatry?
(a) Contagion.
(b) Narcolepsy.
(c) Gomers.
(d) Hourly wage.

2. Berry says Roy is hypomanic, identifying with his aggressor. To whom is she referring?
(a) Fat Man.
(b) Fish.
(c) Pinkus.
(d) Jo.

3. After Potts commits suicide, what remains?
(a) All of his important documents.
(b) A memorial for him.
(c) All his terminal patients.
(d) A spot outside on the concrete.

4. What patient dies whom Jo spent the night sleeping next to?
(a) Rose.
(b) Mr. Pedley.
(c) Mrs. Pedley.
(d) Grace.

5. Why is Nate Zock impressed with Roy?
(a) Because he is incredibly attentive.
(b) Because he seems to know more than any other doctor he has had prior.
(c) Because he stands up to Zock's family.
(d) Because he allows Zock to do what he wants, rather than what everyone else does.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what day do the interns have to have decided where they are going next year?

2. What does Roy contemplate concerning Saul?

3. What is PInkus' favorite hobby?

4. In Chapter 20, what is Roy's theory for the large influx of recent deaths?

5. Who were the Blue Blazers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so strange about how Eat My Dust Eddie speaks about his newborn baby?

2. What was happening that made the interns all more isolated from one another?

3. What started happening around Passover and what was Roy's idea to stop it? Does it work?

4. What is Roy's father's reaction to finding out that Roy is going into psychiatry?

5. When the elevator doesn't move, what is Roy's reaction? When he asks Eddie if he's gone nuts, what is his response? What does this show about their states of mind?

6. When Roy goes to find the Fat Man outside of the hospital, why does he realize that he had never let him see his house before?

7. What does the Fat Man focus on in his workshop? What specialties?

8. What is a Blue Blazer, and what happens when Roy calls one up?

9. What single incident, with the hepatitis woman, made it hard for Roy "to do extremely well for a minute or two"? How did Roy and the nurse react?

10. Why does Berry say that it is emotionally detrimental for the interns when they move on so quickly from things (like Potts' death) and in spite of everything, act like there is no past?

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