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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. Why did Chuck get in trouble with the resident at the hospital?
2. What does Zock promise Roy?
3. Why does Eddie leave the House of God?
4. Why did Roy really go to see the Fat Man in chapter 23?
5. Of the Zock family, who is currently in the House?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Roy finds out that Molly is seeing another intern named Howie, what kind of hypothetical situation does he conjure up in his mind?
2. 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"?
3. What does Berry say was a huge trigger for Roy's regression?
4. What does Jo say, after one of her patients dies, that shows her to be totally devoid of emotion or compassion?
5. Why exactly does Chuck get in trouble in chapter 21?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. Why can't they ever get rid of the one gomer Harry the Horse?
9. 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?
10. What does the new extract the Fat Man created, and what is its one side effect?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As time went on, Roy began to dehumanize his patients, like Pinkus always did inadvertently. Some doctors believe it is necessary to not look at patients personally, but rather look at them as numbers. They believe being emotionally unattached makes a better overall doctor because they can be impartial. Others believe that if doctors don't look at patients as humans, that there is no point in having doctors at all; why not have robots diagnose patients? If a doctor loses their ability to empathize with their patients, then they shouldn't be doctors. Please explain one side of the argument, backing it up with quotes from the text.
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
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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