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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dead Baby Mystery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much do hernia operations cost at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) Half what they cost elsewhere.
(b) About one-third of what they cost elsewhere.
(c) About twice what they cost elsewhere.
(d) About one-fourth of what they cost elsewhere.

2. How old was the patient who needed a central line?
(a) Fiftyish.
(b) In his sixties.
(c) In his thirties.
(d) In his forties.

3. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?
(a) Hans Ohlin.
(b) Henrich Wagner.
(c) John Brighton.
(d) Andrew Weaver.

4. What percent of Americans does a 1995 poll show believe that the moon alters individual behavior?
(a) 57 percent.
(b) 38 percent.
(c) 16 percent.
(d) 43 percent.

5. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 6,100.
(b) 5,300.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 4,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. In court, how many children did Noe say that she had killed?

2. Who was the chief resident in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

3. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?

4. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?

5. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?

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