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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. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?
(a) Things are degraded.
(b) Things shut down.
(c) Things break down.
(d) Things are not well cared for.

2. Where was the first assisted living facility founded?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Oregon.
(d) California.

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

4. Whose story does Gawande say is “going global” (192)?
(a) Lou Sanders.
(b) His father’s.
(c) Sara Monopoli.
(d) Alice Hobson.

5. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Parkinson’s.
(c) Alzheimer’s.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gawande say the problem of care for the sick and dying will be solved?

3. Which of Gawande’s patients showed him “how understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift” (209)?

4. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?

5. What does Gawande say Montaigne said about dying of old age?

(see the answer key)

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