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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 — Hard Conversations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Choking.
(c) Falling.
(d) Heart attacks.

2. Which of Gawande’s patients showed him “how understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift” (209)?
(a) Jewel Douglas.
(b) Joseph Lazaroff.
(c) Lou Sanders.
(d) Sara Monopoli.

3. How old was Sara Monopoli when she was diagnosed with incurable cancer?
(a) 28.
(b) 42.
(c) 30.
(d) 34.

4. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?
(a) Surgical residency.
(b) During a sabbatical.
(c) In college.
(d) First year of medical school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say happens in the third stage of a country’s health care development?

2. By what rate did the death rate decline at Chase, after the introduction of animals?

3. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?

4. What was Gawande’s father’s profession?

5. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?

(see the answer key)

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