Empathy Exams -Practice

In line 7, the author uses the word "unfurl" to mean

slowly divulge

The author suggest that the fictitious "Stephanie Phillips "was" not supposed to think the seizures have anything to do with what she's lost" chiefly because

the fictitious character's incognizance reflects the author's sublimation of her own grief

The author mentions "violent, Midwestern deaths" to suggest that

the fictive Midwestern life allows for entertaining red herrings during the interview process

The chief effect of the word "actual" in line 25 is to

hints at the underlying reality of the process

The author describes medical acting as

a purposeful suspension of disbelief

The "paper gown" (line 5) that medical actors are given to wear is a part of

"a jump rope" (line 32)

In paragraph 4 (lines 17-22), the tone shift occurs in line(s)

21 ("or, like my brother...")

On the whole, the tone of this passage is BEST described as

affable

This sentence plays all of the following roles EXCEPT

an admission of guilt for the role the speaker played in the brother's death

The author implies that the scripts and our real lives are similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT

answers are given out according to "specific protocols."

Paragraph 5, found in line 23-25 ("between encounters...actual bodies",) serves which of the following functions?

it shifts fully to reality

The primary purpose of the passage is to

reveal both parties' investment in this training

The accumulation of detail in lines 8-11 ("the ages of our children...week is accomplished by all of the following EXCEPT

using hyphenated words