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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. Of the Zock family, who is currently in the House?

2. What does Zock promise Roy?

3. Who barges in on Roy and physically makes him go to the show with Berry?

4. What's Ollie's nickname?

5. In Chapter 15, who lovingly breaks the news to a female patient that she is going to die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jo say, after one of her patients dies, that shows her to be totally devoid of emotion or compassion?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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 does Roy see at the Marcel Marceau show that snaps Roy back into reality?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Roy and Berry's relationship seems to be more complicated than most couples'. Explain how they help one another and what roles they play in each other's lives.

Essay Topic 2

The Fat Man teaches his interns that most of the time doing nothing to their patients is better than trying to save their lives. Often when a doctor does tests and gives medication, other ailments result and the patients are worse off then when they arrived. Jo and Dr. Leggo disagree with this mentality and believe that everything should be done to try to save someone's life. Explore both viewpoints and pinpoint what morals each one exemplifies.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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