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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
(a) Strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
(b) Discrimination to understand what should be hoped or feared.
(c) Wise endurance.
(d) Endurance of the soul.

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

3. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?
(a) Blind groping
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Torture.

4. When does Gawande say people started to go to doctors, instead of doctors coming to them?
(a) After the 1970s.
(b) During the Depression.
(c) After World War II.
(d) After World War I.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?

2. Of the people who died in hospice care in the U.S. in 2010, what percent does Gawande say died at home?

3. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?

4. What does Gawande say Montaigne said about dying of old age?

5. What is the typical requirement for a patient to enter hospice care?

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