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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. Who were the Blue Blazers?
(a) People who broke the news to patients that someone died.
(b) Alumni doctors who gave money to the House.
(c) People who answer any questions the interns have.
(d) An elite group of doctors at the House.

2. Why is Nate Zock impressed with Roy?
(a) Because he allows Zock to do what he wants, rather than what everyone else does.
(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 is incredibly attentive.

3. Why did Roy really go to see the Fat Man in chapter 23?
(a) To apologize.
(b) To tell him he's leaving.
(c) To wish him luck with his invention.
(d) To ask him for a favor.

4. What does the Fat man's extract supposedly do?
(a) Stop up a person's bowels.
(b) Make a person forget their pain.
(c) Release a person's bowels.
(d) Make a person less depressed.

5. What has the Runt been giving one of the dying patients?
(a) Advice about his grandchildren.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) Extra food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 789?

2. What is one of Jo's major flaws?

3. What was Eddie promised by Leggo if he stayed on a second year?

4. Who takes Roy and Berry to the airport at the end of the book?

5. Who was going ahead with a fellowship in thanatology?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. What does Nate Zock say he's going to write in his letter to the chief of medicine, Dr. Leggo, the chief resident, and the BMS and House trustees? What did Roy find out later that Nate Zock also did?

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

8. 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"?

9. 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?"

10. Why was Roy's new intern so nicknamed by him and Chuck, and what did Roy say the new intern lacked?

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