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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 — The Independent Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych die of?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) An unnamed disease.
(d) Cholera.

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

3. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?
(a) 88.
(b) 72.
(c) 56.
(d) 41.

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

5. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
(a) Emigration.
(b) Famine.
(c) Political conflict.
(d) Prosperity.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?

(see the answer key)

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