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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. What functions are affected by this first shrinking of the brain?
(a) Abstract thinking.
(b) Planning.
(c) Language.
(d) Judgment.

2. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?
(a) 65.
(b) 70.
(c) 75.
(d) 85.

3. When does Gawande say Keren Wilson founded the first assisted living facility?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1962.

4. What does Gawande say Lou Sanders was scared of?
(a) Dying alone.
(b) Suffering with cancer.
(c) Losing his ability to drive.
(d) Dying.

5. How often does Gawande say he thought about elderly patients before the issue of geriatrics became an interest for him?
(a) He never thought about them.
(b) He had done his residency in a geriatrics unit.
(c) He was always passingly interested in geriatrics.
(d) He had watched his father practice in geriatrics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Sara Monopoli’s strategy for making treatment decisions?

3. How does Gawande characterize the hope of a cure that entices people into what he calls the multitrillion-dollar medical system?

4. What does Gawande say has increased along with our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying?

5. Where did Del Webb, who popularized the term “retirement community” build his first development?

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