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

2. 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 likelihood the treatment would fail.
(c) The reality of his disease.
(d) The side effects to chemotherapy.

3. How does Gawande characterize the state of the medical profession in the face of scientific advances that prolonged life and made dying a medical decision?
(a) Leading by example.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Partners.
(d) Unprepared.

4. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) As a young child.
(b) In medical school.
(c) In visits to his father’s village.
(d) In college.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?

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

3. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?

4. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 1790?

5. How much of the population does Gawande say is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?

(see the answer key)

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