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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
(a) 48.
(b) 56.
(c) 32.
(d) 28.
2. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(b) His chance of survival was so thin.
(c) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(d) His determination to live was otherworldly.
3. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Heart attacks.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Falling.
(d) Choking.
4. How does Gawande say Philip Roth characterizes old age?
(a) A series of dislocations.
(b) A massacre.
(c) A warm bath.
(d) A fuzzy puzzle.
5. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?
(a) Faithful.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Delusional.
(d) Desperate.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
2. When does Gawande say people started to go to doctors, instead of doctors coming to them?
3. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?
4. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?
5. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is rectangularization, and how does it affect society?
2. How does Gawande characterize the problems surrounding Alice Hobson’s declining health?
3. How does Gawande characterize the finances of geriatrics?
4. What events led to Alice Hobson saying “I’m ready” to her son, and then dying?
5. When did the experience of aging and dying come home for Gawande?
6. What was Lou Sanders’ experience of assisted living like?
7. Why does Gawande say doctors do not want to practice geriatrics?
8. What does Gawande say about the theory that we just “fall apart” as we age?
9. What critique does Gawande make of his colleagues in the medical field?
10. How does Lou Sanders’ story mark a development of Gawande’s argument in Being Mortal?
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