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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. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 2017?
(a) 14%.
(b) 22%.
(c) 29%.
(d) 31%.

2. What does Gawande say has increased along with our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying?
(a) The compassion doctors can show.
(b) The sterility family members feel in the face of their loved ones dying.
(c) The indifference caretakers can feel.
(d) The cruelty we inflict on people.

3. 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.

4. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?
(a) Veneration of the independent self.
(b) Veneration of cultural traditions.
(c) Veneration of prosperity.
(d) Veneration of religious figures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?

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

3. What does Ivan Ilych die of?

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

5. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?

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