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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 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 came to America and worked their way up.
(c) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.
(d) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.

2. How much of the population does Gawande say is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?
(a) More than 28%.
(b) More than 20%.
(c) More than 24%.
(d) More than 26%.

3. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?
(a) To be pitied.
(b) To be celebrated.
(c) To be remembered.
(d) To be lionized.

4. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) In medical school.
(b) In college.
(c) In visits to his father’s village.
(d) As a young child.

5. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?
(a) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.
(b) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(c) A high line that ends abruptly.
(d) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?

2. What was Lazaroff’s response to Gawande’s insistence?

3. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?

4. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?

5. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?

(see the answer key)

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