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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 — Things Fall Apart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
(a) Stiffening.
(b) Softening.
(c) Weakening.
(d) Thinning.

2. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?
(a) The cost of the treatment.
(b) The side effects to chemotherapy.
(c) The reality of his disease.
(d) The likelihood the treatment would fail.

3. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?
(a) They harvested a bumper crop that paid their debts.
(b) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.
(c) They came to America and worked their way up.
(d) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.

4. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?
(a) 88.
(b) 56.
(c) 41.
(d) 72.

5. What does Gawande say he tried to impress on Lazaroff?
(a) The inevitability of death.
(b) The chance of paralysis after surgery.
(c) The risks of surgery.
(d) The likelihood the treatment would fail.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?

2. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?

3. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?

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

5. What does Ivan Ilych die of?

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