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

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

3. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?
(a) He had a period when a lot of his friends’ grandparents and relatives were sick or died in a cluster.
(b) He had a grandfather living with him and saw his decline in detail.
(c) He was surrounded by rural poverty and high mortality.
(d) He had almost no exposure.

4. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
(a) Weakening.
(b) Stiffening.
(c) Thinning.
(d) Softening.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for the majority of people who age normally with modern medicine?

3. Why does Dave Galloway say he does not want to take his pain medication when his cancer is troubling him?

4. Which finger does Gawande say has 40% of the hand’s muscles?

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

(see the answer key)

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