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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?
(a) First year of medical school.
(b) Surgical residency.
(c) During a sabbatical.
(d) In college.

2. What did Gawande’s mother want for her husband, when he was dying?
(a) She wanted him to stop suffering.
(b) She wanted him to take her with him.
(c) She wanted him to be at peace.
(d) She wanted him to stay alive as long as possible.

3. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
(a) Wise endurance.
(b) Endurance of the soul.
(c) Strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
(d) Discrimination to understand what should be hoped or feared.

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

5. How does Gawande characterize the hope of a cure that entices people into what he calls the multitrillion-dollar medical system?
(a) A snake oil sales pitch.
(b) A rigged gambling table.
(c) A pretty fairy tale.
(d) A lottery ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Gawande say Lou Sanders became a widower?

2. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?

3. Where did Del Webb, who popularized the term “retirement community” build his first development?

4. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?

5. 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?

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