When Breath Becomes Air Test | Final Test - Easy

Paul Kalanithi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

When Breath Becomes Air Test | Final Test - Easy

Paul Kalanithi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2, Section 2, when was Paul scheduled to complete his residency?
(a) August.
(b) May.
(c) March.
(d) June.

2. What religion did Paul's family practice when he was growing up?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Muslim.

3. What couldn't Paul do at the beginning of Part 2, Section 4?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Read.
(c) Write.
(d) Walk.

4. What time of day was Paul's daughter born?
(a) 3:04 a.m.
(b) 2:11 a.m.
(c) Noon.
(d) Midnight.

5. How many pounds had Paul lost in the last week in Part 2, Section 4?
(a) Nine.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) 15.

6. In Part 2, Section 4, when had Paul's hair thinned the most?
(a) In the last week.
(b) After 3 chemotherapy treatments.
(c) In the last month.
(d) After first chemotherapy treatment.

7. After his daughter's birth, what did Paul see before him?
(a) A blank page.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) An empty wasteland.

8. While Emma was gone and Paul was in the ICU in Part 2, Section 3, who tried to corral all the doctors when Paul was asleep?
(a) Victoria.
(b) His brothers.
(c) Lucy and his father.
(d) Emma's PA.

9. What was the name of Paul's oncologist in Part 2, Section 1?
(a) Megan Brown.
(b) Peter Andrews.
(c) David Rustin.
(d) Emma Hayward.

10. In Part 2, Section 3, what day of the week did Paul begin chemotherapy?
(a) Monday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Thursday.

11. After his daughter's birth, how did Paul describe time?
(a) A state of being.
(b) Race.
(c) Molasses.
(d) Ticking clock.

12. In Part 2, Section 1, what pill did Paul's oncologist say that he might take instead of chemotherapy?
(a) Abraxane.
(b) Farydak.
(c) Darzalex.
(d) Tarceva.

13. At what time at the beginning of Part 2, Section 3, did Paul sit down to look at patients' scans and his own scans?
(a) 8 p.m.
(b) 7 p.m.
(c) 6 p.m.
(d) 5 p.m.

14. What was the name of the resident who didn't want to give Paul his Tarceva in Part 2, Section 3?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Will.
(c) Peter.
(d) Brad.

15. What did Paul decide to do after remembering Samuel Beckett's words in Part 2, Section 2?
(a) Become a history professor.
(b) Go back to the OR.
(c) Go into family medicine.
(d) Become a literature professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Paul watch as Lucy was in labor?

2. When was Paul's graduation scheduled in Part 2, Section 3?

3. When Paul left the hospital after his cancer diagnois in Part 2, Section 1, how long ago had he been in the operating room?

4. In Part 2, Section 2, when did Paul and Lucy go to church with Paul's parents?

5. What did Paul read in Part 2, Section 2, as he turned to literature again?

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