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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 — Things Fall Apart.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Delusional.
(d) Faithful.

4. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Heart attacks.
(c) Falling.
(d) Choking.

5. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Political conflict.
(c) Famine.
(d) Emigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych die of?

2. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?

3. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for the majority of people who age normally with modern medicine?

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

5. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?

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