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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 Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?
(a) Provide an easy death.
(b) Manage his condition.
(c) Cure him.
(d) Demonstrate heroism in trying to save his life.

2. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?
(a) Because we have alienated generations of youth.
(b) Because we do not want them.
(c) Because our families have been broken by emigration.
(d) Because we cannot afford them.

3. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?
(a) Blind groping
(b) Torture.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Cruelty.

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

5. 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 religious figures.
(d) Veneration of prosperity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gawande say he tried to impress on Lazaroff?

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

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

5. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?

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