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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Gawande say insurance companies respond after the Nelene Fox case found insurance companies at fault for not paying for expensive treatments?
(a) They developed complex algorithms to make their decisions less personal.
(b) They hid cost controls in finer small print.
(c) They started to demand accountability from drug companies.
(d) They made hospice care available.

3. How does Gawande characterize his faith in Hinduism?
(a) He says that he is a fervent believer.
(b) He says that he is practical, and it does not matter what he believes if he follows the rites.
(c) He says that he is not much of a believer.
(d) He says that he is a hostile skeptic.

4. What does Gawande say his father always understood about life?
(a) That it is short and his place in the world was small.
(b) That it was not his to lose or grieve.
(c) That it was a gift and he could not be upset about losing it.
(d) That if it is lived well, there is no mourning, only celebration.

5. 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) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) More than half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say the surgeon at his hospital recommended for his father’s tumor?

2. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?

3. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?

4. What does Gawande say Wilson’s assisted living facilities protected?

5. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?

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