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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. How does Gawande characterize the phase of cultural development we are in, with regard to care for the sick and dying?
(a) More medicalized.
(b) More spiritualized.
(c) More institutional.
(d) Transitional.

2. What value did Thomas espouse in running his farm?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Sustainability.

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

4. What did Gawande’s father make Gawande promise him?
(a) He would not be alone when it was time.
(b) He would not let him suffer.
(c) He would not go a nursing home.
(d) He would not let his pain embarrass him.

5. What was the first place Gawande’s father wanted his ashes scattered?
(a) Athens, Ohio.
(b) Cleveland Ohio.
(c) Sacramento, California.
(d) New York city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gawande’s mother want for her husband, when he was dying?

2. What does Kahneman say are our two selves?

3. How does Gawande characterize Jewel Douglas’ temperament in the depths of treatment?

4. When does Gawande say developments in the field of palliative will provide cause for celebration in medical circles?

5. Where had Thomas worked before Chase Memorial?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?

2. How did Bill Thomas’ idea play out?

3. How did Gawande and his mother differ on the question of how to handle Gawande’s father’s care as death came closer?

4. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?

5. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?

6. How does Gawande characterize the ceremony for disposing of his father’s ashes?

7. What is the cause that Gawande says Josiah Royce described as keeping people engaged in their lives?

8. How does Gawande say the western medical model is spreading throughout the world?

9. What was Bill Thomas’ experience prior to starting as the director at the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?

10. How do Gawande’s father’s two doctors approach his condition differently?

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