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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 many of the 100 people Mabel Nassau studied were able to support themselves?
(a) 27.
(b) 42.
(c) 65.
(d) 9.

2. What arrangement did Felix have to make when he brought Bella back home from the nursing home?
(a) He had to have contractors make modifications of their home.
(b) He hired an army of nurses and aides.
(c) He had to return to practicing medicine to pay for her care.
(d) He invited his daughters to live at home to help him.

3. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
(a) Foods that cause cavities.
(b) Foods that cause ulcers.
(c) Foods that lack key nutrients.
(d) Foods that lead to weight gain.

4. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?
(a) 6; 4.
(b) 9; 2.
(c) 7; 3.
(d) 5; 5.

5. 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 high line that ends abruptly.
(d) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?

2. What does Gawande say Lou Sanders was scared of?

3. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for people with “chronic illnesses—emphysema, liver disease, and congestive heart failure”?

4. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?

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

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