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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 the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Control.
(c) Cost containment.
(d) Warehousing the elderly.

2. What does Gawande say is the problem with courage?
(a) It is hard to tell what the wide course is.
(b) It is always open for interpretation.
(c) It can be manifested in opposite ways, in different circumstances.
(d) It depends on your information-gathering skills.

3. When did Gawande’s father become a U.S. citizen?
(a) Memorial Day, 1972.
(b) July 4, 1976.
(c) Easter, 1986.
(d) Christmas, 1982.

4. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?
(a) Things shut down.
(b) Things are not well cared for.
(c) Things break down.
(d) Things are degraded.

5. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?
(a) He made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.
(b) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.
(c) He paid close attention to their needs.
(d) He was more of an expert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gawande say Lou Sanders was scared of?

3. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?

4. Why does Dave Galloway say he does not want to take his pain medication when his cancer is troubling him?

5. What does Gawande say his father’s chance of being paralyzed by surgery were?

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