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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) Thinning.
(c) Softening.
(d) Weakening.

2. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?
(a) Business.
(b) Duty.
(c) Shackles.
(d) Sacred obligation.

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

4. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?
(a) She is his wife’s grandmother.
(b) She is his daughter’s piano teacher.
(c) She is his old piano teacher.
(d) She is his adopted grandmother.

5. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?
(a) Veneration of cultural traditions.
(b) Veneration of prosperity.
(c) Veneration of religious figures.
(d) Veneration of the independent self.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the “newest view” about why we age (32)?

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

3. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?

4. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?

5. What was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?

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