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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 Ilych wanted?
(a) To be celebrated.
(b) To be remembered.
(c) To be pitied.
(d) To be lionized.

2. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?
(a) They harvested a bumper crop that paid their debts.
(b) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.
(c) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.
(d) They came to America and worked their way up.

3. What was Lazaroff’s response to Gawande’s insistence?
(a) He said that he trusted the doctors.
(b) He became adamant about doing everything.
(c) He said he was looking forward to seeing his wife in heaven.
(d) He said that he trusted in God to protect him.

4. How does Gawande characterize the corpse he was given to work with, his first semester of medical school?
(a) Juicy.
(b) Leathery.
(c) Tough.
(d) Stringy.

5. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?
(a) They used to die much earlier.
(b) They used to be much more independent.
(c) They used to be much more private.
(d) They used to be cared for in multi-generational systems.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?

2. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?

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

4. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?

5. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?

(see the answer key)

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