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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of Thomas’ first project?
(a) To reduce medical costs.
(b) To increase resident satisfaction.
(c) To lower mortality rates.
(d) To irritate the staff.

2. How many spoonfuls of Ganges water did Gawande drink, as part of his father’s funeral service?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

3. How does Gawande say his father found peace and gave him and the other around him peace as well?
(a) By saying what he wanted so his desires could be honored.
(b) By leaving money to those after him.
(c) By having performed good works as a member of his society.
(d) By deciding to forego heroic treatments.

4. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?
(a) Weigh the cost effectiveness of each treatment.
(b) Resist the urge to toy with their health.
(c) Consider the effect of treatment on their family units.
(d) Find the most drastic cures and treatments.

5. What does Royce say is the problem with desires as a guide for life?
(a) They are irrational.
(b) They are too individual.
(c) They are capricious.
(d) They are easily influenced.

6. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?
(a) Mr. Information.
(b) The Interpretive Doctor.
(c) The Expert.
(d) The Companion.

7. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?
(a) He made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.
(b) He was more of an expert.
(c) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.
(d) He paid close attention to their needs.

8. How does Gawande characterize the hope of a cure that entices people into what he calls the multitrillion-dollar medical system?
(a) A pretty fairy tale.
(b) A rigged gambling table.
(c) A snake oil sales pitch.
(d) A lottery ticket.

9. How many varieties of chemotherapy did Sara Monopoli try?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

10. How did Bill Thomas overcome the institutional inertia that might have complicated his plans to introduce animals?
(a) He fired anyone who refused to go along.
(b) He talked to key opinion leaders and got buy-in.
(c) He kept his plans secret and hatched them all at once.
(d) He overwhelmed people with big changes quickly.

11. How does Gawande say he answered when his patient’s family asked if his patient was dying?
(a) He could only explain all the variables.
(b) He lied and said no.
(c) He could not answer.
(d) He could not bring himself to tell the truth.

12. What was the second place Gawande’s father wanted his ashes scattered?
(a) The city his ancestors came from.
(b) The town where he went to college.
(c) The village where he grew up.
(d) The city where he got married.

13. By what factor was the doctors’ average overestimation of people’s survival time inaccurate?
(a) 420%.
(b) 250%.
(c) 1,700%.
(d) 530%.

14. What factor correlated with the greatest inaccuracies when doctors estimated their patients’ survival times?
(a) The less they knew the patients, the more inaccurate they were.
(b) The better they knew the patients, the more inaccurate they were.
(c) The longer the patient had been under treatment, the more inaccurate they were.
(d) The more the patient was suffering, , the more inaccurate they were.

15. What does a patient base their impression of pain on, according to researcher Daniel Kahneman?
(a) A snapshot of the most painful moment.
(b) The most painful and the last moments of a procedure.
(c) An average of all the pain in the procedure.
(d) The residual pain at the end of the procedure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the city in which Gawande set out to dispose of his father’s ashes?

2. How many parakeets did Bill Thomas introduce to Chase Memorial?

3. Where does Gawande say his father’s pains began?

4. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?

5. How does Gawande characterize his faith in Hinduism?

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