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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. How many brothers did Paul have?

2. What type of tree was outside the office where Verghese met with Paul?

3. What is Verghese's specialize in as a physician?

4. In the Prologue, when did Paul say he began losing weight and have back pain?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the intern's role when Paul began his residency in Part 1, Section 3?

2. Why did Lucy, Paul's girlfriend in Part 1, Section 2, cry when she viewed an EKG while studying at Paul's apartment?

3. Why does Abraham Verghese say that his foreword should have been an afterward?

4. What did Paul believe setting aside literature would do for him?

5. How would Paul and his friends spends their afternoons in Arizona?

6. In Part 1, Section 3, who was the first patient Paul lost, and how did she die?

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

8. What were some of the things that Paul's mother did in order to see that her children were educated?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul felt that hope left him with his cancer diagnosis. How did Paul find hope after his diagnosis, and what were some events that revealed whether Paul was able to find hope after he learned that he had cancer?

Essay Topic 2

Paul's life was shaped by events and people from his childhood. What were the main events and people that shaped who Paul became and how did those events and people shape his life? What was the strongest influence and why?

Essay Topic 3

Paul commented that terminal illness should have been the perfect gift for someone who wanted to understand death. Why should his illness have been a gift for Paul, and why was it so difficult for him to understand and live through his diagnosis of a terminal illness?

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