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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the the term "slurpers" refer to?

2. Where did the Fat Man keep all of his patients' information?

3. What does Roy use to remember medical facts?

4. Why is Otto Kreinberg allegedly so bitter?

5. What was Berry's reaction to Roy admitting he was having an affair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What insignia starts appearing all over the hospital by Roy's name, and what do people take it to mean?

2. What ethical quandary must Roy face?

3. Roy makes up a law of his own, a new number ten. What is it?

4. Why is Roy initially perplexed by the Fat Man's obsession with "The Wizard of Oz"? What does he then realize?

5. What is Roy's mother's reaction when she senses his ambivalence about medicine and the internship?

6. On the average, how old are the gomers?

7. What keeps reminding Roy of all the gomers from the House?

8. What is a LOL in NAD?

9. How does Roy react when the Fat Man says he knows how scared the interns are?

10. Gilheeny and Quick tell a story about an intern Grenade Room Dubler, who was set up with a favor by the policemen. What was the favor, and what was the outcome?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how "The House of God" could be considered a "coming of age" novel. What growth was made by Roy throughout his year-long internship?

Essay Topic 2

Do you feel any differently about the medical profession and/or doctors after reading the book? Did you consider doctors to all be virtuous or did you have a feeling some had other intentions than just helping people? Explain if and how your opinion changed.

Essay Topic 3

A Catch 22 is when one outcome is dependent on another, while the other is dependent on the first one as well. For example, a person needs money to buy a car, but needs a car to get to work tin order to make the money to buy the car. How does the gomer "Harry the Horse" portray behavior that is reminiscent of Catch 22?

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