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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. Chuck says that Howie's dose he gave a patient is equivalent to what?

2. What does the Fat Man say is keeping him busy when he talks to Roy after a long absence?

3. What patient can will their heart into a crazy rhythm so as to have to stay at the House?

4. Whose slogan is "you gotta have heart"?

5. What does Roy tell Saul is the only thing he can promise him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Roy finds out that Molly is seeing another intern named Howie, what kind of hypothetical situation does he conjure up in his mind?

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

4. 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?

5. 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"?

6. Why exactly does Chuck get in trouble in chapter 21?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Roy is steered in the direction of considering psychiatry instead the continuation of medical school. His father admits he always was good figuring out people. Come up with at least three instances where Roy displayed character traits which are in line with those of psychiatry. Explain in detail how these traits would help him in the field.

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