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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. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(b) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(c) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(d) His chance of survival was so thin.

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

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

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 was Gawande’s father’s profession?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Urologist.
(d) Executive.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?

2. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?

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

4. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?

5. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?

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