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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 was Victor Caselli's occupation?
(a) Heavy-machine operator and road construction contractor.
(b) Semi-truck driver.
(c) Sanitation engineer.
(d) Assembly-line worker.

2. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Wharton.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Brown.

3. When did Lazaroff's son tell the neurosurgeon that they should stop treating his father?
(a) 3 weeks after his spinal sugery.
(b) 14 days after his spinal surgery.
(c) 2 days after his spinal surgery.
(d) 7 days after his spinal surgery.

4. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?
(a) 103 degrees.
(b) 101 degrees.
(c) 104 degrees.
(d) 102 degrees.

5. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What network did Christine Drury work for when she was the overnight anchorwoman?

2. How old was Lazaroff?

3. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?

4. For how many years have doctors been performing autopsies?

5. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the dissecting room and location where Gawande observed an autopsy.

2. What did the surgery involve that Drury had in order to stop blushing?

3. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?

4. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

5. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

6. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

7. Why in 1533 was the first documented postmortem examination in the New World performed?

8. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

9. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

10. What two options did Lazaroff have to deal with the metastasis that was compressing his thoracic spinal cord?

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