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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 — Dependence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the similarity between nursing homes and prisons?
(a) They are both total institutions.
(b) They are both punitive.
(c) They both house mostly poor people.
(d) They are both state-run.

2. Which finger does Gawande say has 40% of the hand’s muscles?
(a) The thumb.
(b) The middle finger.
(c) The pinky finger.
(d) The pointer finger.

3. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?
(a) 88.
(b) 56.
(c) 72.
(d) 41.

4. What made the Harry Truman Gawande describes a hero in his townspeople’s eyes?
(a) He defied the odds and survived a deadly cancer.
(b) He weathered out the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens.
(c) He used being-buried-by-a-volcano as a retirement plan.
(d) He saved his neighbors from the fallout when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.

5. What does Gawande say has increased along with our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying?
(a) The sterility family members feel in the face of their loved ones dying.
(b) The compassion doctors can show.
(c) The cruelty we inflict on people.
(d) The indifference caretakers can feel.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James Vaupel’s research, how much of your parents’ lifespans determines your own?

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

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

4. What does Gawande say Felix Silverstone’s wife found exasperating about being in a nursing home floor while her bones mended?

5. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?

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