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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the five characteristics of many illnesses, as described by Julia?
(a) Inoculation, exposure, incubation, invasion, and convalescence.
(b) Exposure, incubation, invasion, defervescence, and convalescence.
(c) Exposure, incubation, invasion, medication, and convalescence.
(d) Exposure, inoculation, interference, physical therapy, and convalescence.

2. What number pregnancy is Ita Noonan expecting?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 1.

3. How does Julia describe the sounds Delia makes at the end of pushing?
(a) She is deadly silent.
(b) A screaming banshee.
(c) Peaceful and calm.
(d) Like she is being eaten by wolves.

4. From what symptoms does Ita suffer, when the reader first meets her?
(a) She is delirious and feverish.
(b) She is feverish and in labor.
(c) She is coughing and sneezing.
(d) She is delirious and violent.

5. What causes Julia concern, more so than Ita's bluing nail beds?
(a) Her temperature has increased.
(b) Her blood pressure has increased.
(c) Her respirations are 36 a minute.
(d) Her respirations has slowed down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dr. Prendergast not prescribe aspirin for Ita’s fever?

2. What is used instead of cotton swabs due to a shortage?

3. What does Julia call the man who died soon after being brought into the hospital by the junior?

4. What story does one of the cooks give Bridie for the cause of the flu?

5. How does Groyne annoy Julia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two examples given at the beginning of "Red" that there is disease in the city?

2. What condition does Tim have? How did this occur?

3. How does Julia describe what she calls a “weird malady?”

4. How did Julia receive her nurses training, and how long has Julia worked as a nurse?

5. What are two ways that Julia checks vital signs?

6. Why is Julia worried about Dr. Lynn’s suturing skills? How are her worries alleviated?

7. How does Julia become the acting ward sister?

8. Why does Julia tell Dr. Lynn what she did to try to keep Delia from tearing?

9. How does Julia feel about her own physical appearance after Delia’s delivery? Why might she feel this way?

10. Julia is contemplative on her commute home from the hospital in "Brown." Of what does she think?

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