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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 — Hard Conversations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Keren Wilson say assisted living facilities are ultimately built for?
(a) Older people’s children.
(b) Elderly people.
(c) Investors.
(d) Administrators.

2. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?
(a) People have not organized enough to demand it.
(b) Powerful interests prevent it.
(c) We do not have the imagination for it.
(d) There is not enough profit in it.

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 made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.
(c) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.
(d) He was more of an expert.

4. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Choking.
(b) Falling.
(c) Heart attacks.
(d) Blindness.

5. How does Gawande characterize the onset of treatment for his father’s tumor?
(a) As a tragedy that struck too early.
(b) As a punishment for not having taken better care of his father.
(c) As a test for what he had learned about mortality.
(d) As an opportunity to practice what he had learned to preach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lou Sanders’ daughter Shelley compare him to when he comes to live with her and her family?

2. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died at home at the end of the second World War?

3. How does Gawande characterize the trend among geriatrics departments in hospitals?

4. By what margin does Gawande say costs came down in Keren Wilson’s assisted living facility?

5. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?

(see the answer key)

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