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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 — Courage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?
(a) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.
(b) He was more of an expert.
(c) He paid close attention to their needs.
(d) He made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.

2. What percentage of doctors in Nicholas Christakis’ study overestimated their patients’ survival time?
(a) 19%.
(b) 37%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 63%.

3. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Alzheimer’s.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Parkinson’s.
(d) Dementia.

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

5. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1991.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way do doctors “inflict deep gouges at the end of people’s lives,” in Gawande’s opinion?

2. When does Gawande say people started to go to doctors, instead of doctors coming to them?

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

4. How many varieties of chemotherapy did Sara Monopoli try?

5. When did Mabel Nassau conduct the study of elderly in Greenwich Village, that Gawande cites?

(see the answer key)

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