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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 — Letting Go.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what factor does Gawande say the cost of living in a nursing home exceeds the cost of living in an assisted living facility?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

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

3. How did Alice Hobson lose her car?
(a) She parked it in the wrong parking lot.
(b) She forgot to make her car payments.
(c) She left the keys in it and it was stolen.
(d) She got in a small accident and lost her license.

4. When did Bill Thomas take over as director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1991.

5. How does Gawande characterize the hope of a cure that entices people into what he calls the multitrillion-dollar medical system?
(a) A rigged gambling table.
(b) A lottery ticket.
(c) A snake oil sales pitch.
(d) A pretty fairy tale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gawande say was the concept Wilson incorporated in her assisted living facility idea?

3. What factor correlated with the greatest inaccuracies when doctors estimated their patients’ survival times?

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

5. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?

(see the answer key)

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