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

2. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died at home at the end of the second World War?
(a) 32%.
(b) 17%.
(c) More than half.
(d) 44%.

3. What does Gawande say your chances of avoiding a nursing home depend on?
(a) Having a younger spouse.
(b) How much money you have.
(c) Having sons.
(d) How many children you have.

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

5. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Gawande say Lou Sanders became a widower?

2. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?

3. What does Gawande say was the concept Wilson incorporated in her assisted living facility idea?

4. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?

5. What does Gawande say Laura Carstensen found in terms of people’s values in life?

(see the answer key)

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