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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. 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. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?
(a) Because we cannot afford them.
(b) Because our families have been broken by emigration.
(c) Because we do not want them.
(d) Because we have alienated generations of youth.

3. What does Gawande say is the first part of the brain to shrink with aging?
(a) Parietal lobe.
(b) Occipital lobe.
(c) Temporal lobe.
(d) Frontal lobe.

4. How does Gawande characterize the trend among geriatrics departments in hospitals?
(a) No change from the past 30 years.
(b) Closing more than opening.
(c) Mostly closing down.
(d) Opening in more and more hospitals.

5. By what factor does Gawande say the cost of living in a nursing home exceeds the cost of living in an assisted living facility?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?

2. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?

3. What functions are affected by this first shrinking of the brain?

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

5. When were retirement communities popularized in the U.S.?

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