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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gawande say the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?
(a) Cost containment.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Warehousing the elderly.
(d) Control.

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

4. What does Gawande say made Alice Hobson unhappy with her assisted living facility?
(a) The smelly food.
(b) The rigid schedule.
(c) The loss of autonomy.
(d) Being surrounded by old people.

5. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?
(a) They came to America and worked their way up.
(b) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.
(c) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.
(d) They harvested a bumper crop that paid their debts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Gawande say Lou Sanders became a widower?

2. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?

3. What event does Gawande say sparked a national revolution in elder care?

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

5. How does Gawande say Philip Roth characterizes old age?

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