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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. For glioblastoma, what percent of patients were alive two years after surgery?
(a) Five.
(b) 11.
(c) 20.
(d) One.

2. How many times did Verghese meet with Paul?
(a) Once.
(b) Three times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Twice.

3. What did Paul study as an undergraduate student?
(a) English and biology.
(b) Biology and philosophy.
(c) Biology and botany.
(d) History and biology.

4. How many years of training did Paul have before him when he began his residency in Part 1, Section 3?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

5. What was Paul's father's occupation?
(a) Internist.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Cardiologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Verghese when he "met" Paul?

2. What was Paul's mother trained to be?

3. After his sophomore year in college, where did Paul get a job?

4. Where were the exchange students from that Paul convinced there were coyotes that lived inside cacti?

5. In Part 1, Section 3, how old was the boy named Matthew who had a tumor abutting his hypothalamus?

Short Essay Questions

1. By the end of medical school, what did most students focus on for their specialties?

2. What were some of the first symptoms Paul had experienced?

3. How did Paul view language at the beginning of Part 1, Section 2?

4. What happened to Paul's co-resident, Jeff?

5. What was Paul's educational journey?

6. Why did Mari, a fellow medical student with Paul, feel relief and then shame when a surgery was called off at the end of Part 1, Section 2?

7. What did the first X-rays Paul had reveal and what did the doctor think his issues were?

8. What hours did residents work according to Paul in Part 1, Section 3?

9. How were bodies provided for medical school in the past?

10. How did Paul feel when he made a trip to New York in the Prologue?

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