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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 was the last person Potts talked to before he died?
(a) The Runt.
(b) Roy.
(c) Chuck.
(d) The Fat Man.

2. What does Roy buy himself at the end of chapter 21?
(a) A car.
(b) A pair of running shoes.
(c) A basketball.
(d) A fishing rod.

3. Upon seeing a specific act in the show he attends with Berry, what does Roy begin to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Ask Berry to take him home.
(c) Roll his eyes.
(d) Reflect on Berry and his relationship.

4. What was the clear winner of the specialties chosen by the interns?
(a) Opthamology.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Dermathology.
(d) Pathology.

5. What is NOT one of the theories about what is inside of Olive's humps?
(a) Big pimentos.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Petrol gas.
(d) The milk of human kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Roy really go to see the Fat Man in chapter 23?

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

3. Who is the tall, emaciated-looking consultant to Roy's new unit?

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

5. In Chapter 20, what is equated by Roy as going together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the new extract the Fat Man created, and what is its one side effect?

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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. 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?

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