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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 does Gawande say the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?
(a) Cost containment.
(b) Control.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Warehousing the elderly.

2. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?
(a) Her child’s medical needs.
(b) Her mother’s stroke.
(c) Her father’s dementia.
(d) Her own epilepsy.

3. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?
(a) The Interpretive Doctor.
(b) Mr. Information.
(c) The Companion.
(d) The Expert.

4. According to James Vaupel’s research, how much of your parents’ lifespans determines your own?
(a) 7%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 42%.
(d) 3%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the people who died in hospice care in the U.S. in 2010, what percent does Gawande say died at home?

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

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 at home at the end of the second World War?

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

(see the answer key)

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