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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 plot of a person’s health for most of history?
(a) A high line that ends abruptly.
(b) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(c) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.
(d) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.
2. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?
(a) The side effects to chemotherapy.
(b) The reality of his disease.
(c) The cost of the treatment.
(d) The likelihood the treatment would fail.
3. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?
(a) Torture.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Blind groping
4. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(b) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(c) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(d) His chance of survival was so thin.
5. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?
(a) They used to die much earlier.
(b) They used to be much more private.
(c) They used to be much more independent.
(d) They used to be cared for in multi-generational systems.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
2. How does Gawande characterize the state of the medical profession in the face of scientific advances that prolonged life and made dying a medical decision?
3. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
4. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?
5. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?
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