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1. There is a Doctor of Physic among Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims. He tells the tale of a Roman girl who was killed by her father to save her from dishonour at the hands of the deceivir Appius Claudius. What was the girl's name?
2. "Le Malade Imaginaire" ("The Imaginary Invalid" or "The Hypochondriac"), a French comedy first produced in 1673, contains a good deal of satirical fun at the expense of the medical profession. Who wrote it?
3. One of the principal characters in Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" is a French doctor who has been imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years and released shortly before the story starts. What is his surname?
4. Dr Henry Jekyll developed a potion with which he transformed himself into the evil Edward Hyde. Which Scottish author wrote "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"?
5. Graduating as M. D. (London) in 1878, this fictional doctor joined the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers and was immediately posted with his regiment to Afghanistan. There he was wounded and contracted enteric fever. Invalided out of the Army, he returned to London and was soon sharing rooms near Regent's Park with a man whose adventures he relates in four novels and fifty-six short stories. What is this doctor's surname?
6. Dr Colenso Ridgeon, an eminent doctor, has to decide whether or not to treat an artist named Louis Dubedat in a play called "The Doctor's Dilemma." Who is the author of the play?
7. In Hugh Lofting's "The Story of Doctor Dolittle," what is the name of the doctor's parrot, who teaches him the language of the animals?
8. Andrew Manson, an idealistic young doctor, starts out with the highest ideals in a practice in a Welsh mining town. Gradually disillusioned by the apathy and ignorance of his patients as much as by the indifference of the establishment, he devotes himself to acquiring wealth and prestige in London. Eventually a combination of circumstances, including the death of a friend, helps him to regain his sense of purpose. What is the title of this novel by A. J. Cronin, published in 1937?
9. A series of humorous novels, beginning with "Doctor in the House" in 1952, tells of the personal and professional ups and downs of Dr Simon Sparrow. Who is the author?
10. Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, is the hero of a novel by Boris Pasternak. What is the name of Zhivago's mistress?
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