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

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

3. Of the people who died in hospice care in the U.S. in 2010, what percent does Gawande say died at home?
(a) 20%.
(b) More than half.
(c) 40%.
(d) 30%.

4. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1991.

5. What is the typical requirement for a patient to enter hospice care?
(a) A terminal diagnosis.
(b) Chronic pain.
(c) Running out of private funding for a nursing home.
(d) A life expectancy under six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the default option for poor elderly people in the time of Mabel’s study?

2. What does Gawande say is the first part of the brain to shrink with aging?

3. What was Thomas’ first project when he arrived at Chase?

4. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?

5. What event does Gawande say sparked a national revolution in elder care?

(see the answer key)

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