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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 is PInkus' favorite hobby?

2. Who was the last person Potts talked to before he died?

3. What was Berry giving Roy and his friends advice about in chapter 24?

4. What does the Fat Man decide to do to help the interns make their decision about their job next year?

5. Sam Levin, an eighty-year-old patient, is known for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. Whom does Gilheeny claim are the three people that he and Quick will always cherish?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. Why can't they ever get rid of the one gomer Harry the Horse?

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

9. What does Roy ask the Runt about Angel? Why can't the Runt completely answer the question?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Berry says the interns' problem is that they seem to obliterate each day in order to start the new one. In other words, "one day at a time" philosophy taken seriously. Although a way to cope when having a difficult time, Berry pointed out that there is no emotional growth when acting this way, so nothing changes, and the person continues to have a difficult time coping with their life. Choose at least two characters and give specific examples of when they were exemplifying this philosophy within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

There are many times throughout the novel where ethics are questioned. Name at least three times where they appear and explain the outcomes.

Essay Topic 3

One moment Roy believes the Fat Man to be right about everything, and then he questions him the next moment. For a good amount of time, he believes Pinkus had the right idea about medicine, until he snapped out of it. Why do you believe that Roy had such confusion regarding the different perspectives of the doctors? Was it because he was devoid of an opinion of his own, or was he just susceptible to others' viewpoints?

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