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The Carter Diaries Trivia Quiz

We don't know if Carter keeps a diary, but if he did, it would be filled with the drama, comedy, romance and daily events that have made his character who he is. This quiz features plausible diary entries, and you tell me which season each comes from.

A multiple-choice quiz by hitachi. Estimated time: 9 mins.

Author
hitachi

Time
9 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
159,028

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Dear Diary,

It's been a while since I've written. I don't even really have time, energy, or kerosene to be writing now, but...well...I guess I'm having one of those days where I'm gonna look back and know this was the turning point. I'm single again, I'm back here, and who'd a thought it, but Luka's on his way back to Chicago, alive!

I'm drunk tired, but out here you pull reserves from places you didn't know you had. Its funny how I thought I was having tough days back in Chicago, and I was. Gamma's death, Abby, County. But the spinning, disorienting, fatiguing kind. Here, I'm tired, but I wake up ready to do it again. My mission is clear, and I'm good at it. And go to sleep happy - for the first time in long time.

'Night, Carter Hint

Season 8

Season 10

Season 9

Season 7

NEXT>

Question 2 of 10

2. Dear Diary,

I don't even know what to write. Sometimes I can't really see, like life is a hallucination, or, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I just left Gamma's. She asked me to stay, but I didn't.

I've been having these weird...I dunno...like that lumbar patient made me think of Sobriki. It's so vivid. And then that woman who's allergic to sulfur. I think I just need to sleep. I can't SLEEP! I might stay with Gamma next week.

And then he's having a kid. His wife told me. I know he's schizophrenic, but, is that fair?

John

Answer: (One Word, just the season number)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Dear Diary,

So I guess this is it. One day, the woman of your dreams is helping you detox your cousin, and the next, she's on her way back to the man of her nightmares. Am I really that bad? Or is the world really this messed up?

I guess I could look on the bright side, I'm getting paid this year. I wonder is my stipend "lucrative" enough for Grampa? I'm guessing not.

G'night, Carter Hint

Season 3

Season 4

Season 6

Season 5

NEXT>

Question 4 of 10

4. Dear Diary,

Nice to meet you. So much for my big dreams of chronicling med school. Kind of hard to do when your apartment burns down and everything in it. Oh well, Dennis said I could stay with him; we're going half for now. Good thing too, there's was no way I was moving back home - even overnight.

Peter's slides! How did I become in charge of those? I hope he has a spare set.

Night, Carter

Answer: (One Word, just the season number)

NEXT>

Question 5 of 10

5. Dear Diary,

I didn't do it. The restaurant, the ring, everything was perfect. And then, something she said, or the way she looked...

I didn't do it.

Carter Hint

Season 7

Season 10

Season 8

Season 9

NEXT>

Question 6 of 10

6. Dear Diary,

My covers blown. Everybody knows I'm one of "those Carters" now. And if Peter isn't a walking coldsore already, now he has another reason to look down on me. He's resentful because he still has med school bills. How is that my fault? And he hasn't even finished my recommendation yet. There's no way I'm getting that surgical internship. Or the ER one for that matter. And I don't want it. There are hospitals all over Chicago, and I think I'll make it somehow without County.

Maybe I should have listened to Gamma and just become a stuffed shirt, pampered, snobby investor who cuts ribbons all day and fiends for stock quotes.

Carter

Answer: (One Word, just the season number)

NEXT>

Question 7 of 10

7. Dear Diary,

Peter and I had our run-ins, but, I'm sorry to see him go. I can't think about him without having immense respect - I'm the doctor I am because of him. I even owe him my life. Sorry to see him go. Really.

The other people I owe my life are getting a divorce. I'm 30, accomplished, my parents marriage was...I don't know what it was. I would have never guessed it would have bothered me this much. I would have never guessed they'd split up.

'Night, Carter Hint

Season 7

Season 10

Season 9

Season 8

NEXT>

Question 8 of 10

8. Dear Diary,

Well I didn't think I was going to jail today. Whatever. I am glad Anna's back talking to me though. But in some ways, I still can't figure out why people feel they're entitled to my financial status. What? Should I walk up and say "Hello, I'm John. I'm worth millions of dollars. I'm now taking applications for grants." I'm not some spoiled brat. I'm living off the money I make...mostly. Who told Carol to invite her anyway?

What do you say about a woman who gets mad at with you when she finds out you're rich, but gives up a kiss when she comes to bail you out of jail? If I'd known that...

Oh, I forgot to mention, Chase dropped in today - spider bite. It was good to see him...he looks like he's doing well.

Carter

Answer: (One Word, just the season number)

NEXT>

Question 9 of 10

9. Dear Diary,

Nineteen. She's nineteen years old! I didn't even date nineteen year olds when I was nineteen. I had to let her go.

She makes great eggs though.

Carter Hint

Season 10

Season 8

Season 7

Season 9

NEXT>

Question 10 of 10

10. Dear Diary,

Well, this entry is totally different than I thought it would be. Today was my med school graduation. The day I've waited for since, since whenever. I dealt with my parents, grandparents, self-doubt, long hours all for this day. And I didn't go.

I don't even feel that bad about it. I thought I would, but, at this moment, I don't. I got the internship I wanted and I helped a little kid today. My parents weren't coming anyway.

Later, Dr. John Carter

Answer: (One Word, just the season number)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Dear Diary, It's been a while since I've written. I don't even really have time, energy, or kerosene to be writing now, but...well...I guess I'm having one of those days where I'm gonna look back and know this was the turning point. I'm single again, I'm back here, and who'd a thought it, but Luka's on his way back to Chicago, alive! I'm drunk tired, but out here you pull reserves from places you didn't know you had. Its funny how I thought I was having tough days back in Chicago, and I was. Gamma's death, Abby, County. But the spinning, disorienting, fatiguing kind. Here, I'm tired, but I wake up ready to do it again. My mission is clear, and I'm good at it. And go to sleep happy - for the first time in long time. 'Night, Carter

Answer: Season 10

This diary entry would fall sometime after episode 10-2 "The Lost" Although we didn't know it then, Carter's letter to Abby was a break-up letter, and he wasn't coming home anytime soon.

2. Dear Diary, I don't even know what to write. Sometimes I can't really see, like life is a hallucination, or, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I just left Gamma's. She asked me to stay, but I didn't. I've been having these weird...I dunno...like that lumbar patient made me think of Sobriki. It's so vivid. And then that woman who's allergic to sulfur. I think I just need to sleep. I can't SLEEP! I might stay with Gamma next week. And then he's having a kid. His wife told me. I know he's schizophrenic, but, is that fair? John

Answer: six

Carter had a really hard time after getting stabbed. Survivor's guilt (Lucy, his med student died), daily reminders at the ER, not to mention excruciating pain from a damaged kidney all contributed to his decline. He almost killed a patient by giving her sulfur, when she had told him that she was allergic to it.

Despite support from his grandmother and repeated urgings from his friends to seek therapy, he couldn't get it together, and became addicted to prescription drugs. Season 6 ended with him (Peter in tow) on a plane to a rehab clinic in Atlanta.

3. Dear Diary, So I guess this is it. One day, the woman of your dreams is helping you detox your cousin, and the next, she's on her way back to the man of her nightmares. Am I really that bad? Or is the world really this messed up? I guess I could look on the bright side, I'm getting paid this year. I wonder is my stipend "lucrative" enough for Grampa? I'm guessing not. G'night, Carter

Answer: Season 5

Anna went back to Philadelphia to take a pediatrics job, be with her family, and...reunite with Max.

4. Dear Diary, Nice to meet you. So much for my big dreams of chronicling med school. Kind of hard to do when your apartment burns down and everything in it. Oh well, Dennis said I could stay with him; we're going half for now. Good thing too, there's was no way I was moving back home - even overnight. Peter's slides! How did I become in charge of those? I hope he has a spare set. Night, Carter

Answer: three

We learned about these events in the third season episodes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "Last Call." One of Carter's neighbor's, and eventual patients, burns down their apartment building by accident. I'm assuming his "diary" would have been among the casualties.

5. Dear Diary, I didn't do it. The restaurant, the ring, everything was perfect. And then, something she said, or the way she looked... I didn't do it. Carter

Answer: Season 9

In "A Thousand Cranes," Carter buys out an elite restaurant, dresses up, and really shows Abby a night on the town. But, as he leads up to "the question" one of her comments deflates him, and his next statement is about dessert.

6. Dear Diary, My covers blown. Everybody knows I'm one of "those Carters" now. And if Peter isn't a walking coldsore already, now he has another reason to look down on me. He's resentful because he still has med school bills. How is that my fault? And he hasn't even finished my recommendation yet. There's no way I'm getting that surgical internship. Or the ER one for that matter. And I don't want it. There are hospitals all over Chicago, and I think I'll make it somehow without County. Maybe I should have listened to Gamma and just become a stuffed shirt, pampered, snobby investor who cuts ribbons all day and fiends for stock quotes. Carter

Answer: one

He might have written this after Episode 1-24 "Love Among the Ruins." The staff finds out he's wealthy, and that his father is worth $178 million. Meanwhile, Peter is three months behind in his med school loan payments, and Mark and Susan combined owe in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Carter also has angered Peter for applying for the ER Sub-1 internship, even though he's been working with Peter in surgery.

7. Dear Diary, Peter and I had our run-ins, but, I'm sorry to see him go. I can't think about him without having immense respect - I'm the doctor I am because of him. I even owe him my life. Sorry to see him go. Really. The other people I owe my life are getting a divorce. I'm 30, accomplished, my parents marriage was...I don't know what it was. I would have never guessed it would have bothered me this much. I would have never guessed they'd split up. 'Night, Carter

Answer: Season 8

Episode 8-10, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," was the departing episode for Eriq LaSalle. Carter also discovers that his father is divorcing his mother. At first he thinks his father has found someone else, but his father is actually just tired of his wife's frigidity.

8. Dear Diary, Well I didn't think I was going to jail today. Whatever. I am glad Anna's back talking to me though. But in some ways, I still can't figure out why people feel they're entitled to my financial status. What? Should I walk up and say "Hello, I'm John. I'm worth millions of dollars. I'm now taking applications for grants." I'm not some spoiled brat. I'm living off the money I make...mostly. Who told Carol to invite her anyway? What do you say about a woman who gets mad at with you when she finds out you're rich, but gives up a kiss when she comes to bail you out of jail? If I'd known that... Oh, I forgot to mention, Chase dropped in today - spider bite. It was good to see him...he looks like he's doing well. Carter

Answer: four

This entry touches on elements of Carter's life in Season 4. In "Ground Zero," Carol Hathaway brings Anna Del Amico with her when she meets Millicent (Carter's grandmother) for a donation to start her own clinic. Carter gives Anna an impromptu tour of the mansion. She then accuses him of hiding his wealth. "Freak Show" continues their tension. But they get back on track in "Obstruction of Justice," to Carter's relief.

These are also key episodes among ER fans, as we meet the beloved "Gamma" and Carter's heroine addicted cousin, Chase.

9. Dear Diary, Nineteen. She's nineteen years old! I didn't even date nineteen year olds when I was nineteen. I had to let her go. She makes great eggs though. Carter

Answer: Season 7

This entry would follow "Witch Hunt." Carter is stunned to learn Rena Trujillo, a pediatric intern at County, is an undergraduate. But two episodes later, he reconsiders, and they are back together. Eventually, she dumps him over the phone when he accompanies Abby to rescue her mother, instead of going to a Bulls game with Rena.

10. Dear Diary, Well, this entry is totally different than I thought it would be. Today was my med school graduation. The day I've waited for since, since whenever. I dealt with my parents, grandparents, self-doubt, long hours all for this day. And I didn't go. I don't even feel that bad about it. I thought I would, but, at this moment, I don't. I got the internship I wanted and I helped a little kid today. My parents weren't coming anyway. Later, Dr. John Carter

Answer: two

Carter would have written this on the day of his med school graduation in Episode 2-22, appropriately named "Dr. John Carter, MD". Instead of going, he helps a child with leukemia. Later, we learn leukemia is what took his older brother's life when they were kids, and is a continuous theme with him throughout the series. This was the Season 2 finale.

Source: Author hitachi

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