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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 — Assistance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?
(a) The story that he would just get better.
(b) The lie that he was not really dying.
(c) The indifference his family felt.
(d) The impotence of his doctors.

2. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?
(a) Veneration of the independent self.
(b) Veneration of cultural traditions.
(c) Veneration of prosperity.
(d) Veneration of religious figures.

3. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1976.

4. How does Gawande characterize the state of the medical profession in the face of scientific advances that prolonged life and made dying a medical decision?
(a) Leading by example.
(b) Partners.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Unprepared.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 2017?

4. How many of the 100 people Mabel Nassau studied were able to support themselves?

5. What system did the U.S. join Europe in implementing in 1935?

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