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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 was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?
(a) Assisted suicide.
(b) Comfort care.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Doing nothing.

2. 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 wife’s grandmother.
(d) She is his adopted grandmother.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were retirement communities popularized in the U.S.?

2. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?

3. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?

4. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?

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

(see the answer key)

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