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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. When did Gawande’s father become a U.S. citizen?
(a) Easter, 1986.
(b) Christmas, 1982.
(c) Memorial Day, 1972.
(d) July 4, 1976.

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

3. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?
(a) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(b) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.
(c) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.
(d) A high line that ends abruptly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?

2. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?

3. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?

4. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?

5. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?

(see the answer key)

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