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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?
(a) That they had come to kill him.
(b) That he had killed them.
(c) That he was responsible for their souls.
(d) That he had betrayed them.

2. What do the doctors from Uganda and the writer from South Africa say about American medical care?
(a) It clearly benefits the rich.
(b) It is biased against people of color and the poor.
(c) No one in their countries could afford it.
(d) It is obviously wasteful.

3. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) In medical school.
(b) In college.
(c) In visits to his father’s village.
(d) As a young child.

4. What does Gawande say has increased along with our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying?
(a) The compassion doctors can show.
(b) The cruelty we inflict on people.
(c) The sterility family members feel in the face of their loved ones dying.
(d) The indifference caretakers can feel.

5. What does Gawande say his father’s chance of being paralyzed by surgery were?
(a) 1 in 6
(b) 1 in 20.
(c) 1 in 4.
(d) 1 in 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the priority for hospice care?

2. How many spoonfuls of Ganges water did Gawande drink, as part of his father’s funeral service?

3. What does Gawande say he tried to impress on Lazaroff?

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

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

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