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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the corpse he was given to work with, his first semester of medical school?
(a) Tough.
(b) Juicy.
(c) Leathery.
(d) Stringy.

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

3. What does Ivan Ilych die of?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) An unnamed disease.
(d) Cholera.

4. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?
(a) Things shut down.
(b) Things are degraded.
(c) Things break down.
(d) Things are not well cared for.

5. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?
(a) Shackles.
(b) Sacred obligation.
(c) Duty.
(d) Business.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What arrangement did Felix have to make when he brought Bella back home from the nursing home?

3. What does Gawande say Wilson’s assisted living facilities protected?

4. By what factor does Gawande say the cost of living in a nursing home exceeds the cost of living in an assisted living facility?

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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