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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. What functions are affected by this first shrinking of the brain?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Abstract thinking.
(c) Planning.
(d) Language.

2. 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.

3. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
(a) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 56.
(d) 48.

4. What was Gawande’s father’s profession?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Urologist.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Executive.

5. When were retirement communities popularized in the U.S.?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the population does Gawande say is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?

2. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?

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

4. What does Gawande say he tried to impress on Lazaroff?

5. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?

(see the answer key)

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