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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 Roy's trick with his stethoscope?
(a) He can talk into it and sound like the Fat Man.
(b) He can make it seem broken if he doesn't want to deal with a patient.
(c) He has learned how to play with it as if it was a yoyo.
(d) He can use it without the patient having to undress at all.

2. What is 789?
(a) The number of patients the Fat Man has treated.
(b) The nickname of Chuck.
(c) Roy's new intern.
(d) The number of patients Roy has treated.

3. What activity does Roy decide he is going to participate in?
(a) Bowling.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Running.
(d) Walking to work.

4. Sam Levin, an eighty-year-old patient, is known for what?
(a) Making everyone wait on him constantly.
(b) Hitting on the nurses.
(c) Eating everyone's food.
(d) Playing practical jokes on the interns.

5. Who says they like it when people say "I don't know"?
(a) Roy.
(b) The Fish.
(c) Leggo.
(d) The Fat Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the wing called The Wing of Zock?

2. What does Roy acknowledge about his father when he reads his most recent letter?

3. Berry says Roy is hypomanic, identifying with his aggressor. To whom is she referring?

4. In his fantasy he has while at work, Roy imagines the mystery woman's perfume to smell like what?

5. Who surprised Roy by admitting he had killed patients before?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Berry say was a huge trigger for Roy's regression?

3. What does Jo say, after one of her patients dies, that shows her to be totally devoid of emotion or compassion?

4. What is Pinkus' state of health as opposed to how he used to be?

5. What is Roy's clever response to the question posed by 789: "how come you're always going to sleep, and I"m always staying awake?"

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

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

8. Why does Roy start to dislike the Fat Man? What does Berry think?

9. 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?

10. How does Roy claim that many people in the hospital "take out our hatred, our loneliness, our horror with human suffering, and our despair at human endings"?

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