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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 is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?
(a) More than 28%.
(b) More than 24%.
(c) More than 26%.
(d) More than 20%.

2. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?
(a) He had a grandfather living with him and saw his decline in detail.
(b) He had almost no exposure.
(c) He had a period when a lot of his friends’ grandparents and relatives were sick or died in a cluster.
(d) He was surrounded by rural poverty and high mortality.

3. Where did Del Webb, who popularized the term “retirement community” build his first development?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Florida.
(c) Arizona.
(d) California.

4. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?
(a) The cost of the treatment.
(b) The reality of his disease.
(c) The side effects to chemotherapy.
(d) The likelihood the treatment would fail.

5. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Ivan Turgenev.
(d) Mikhail Lermontov.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?

3. What does Gawande say has increased along with our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying?

4. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 2017?

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

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