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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a pandit?
(a) A professional mourner.
(b) A boatman.
(c) A funeral guide.
(d) A holy man.

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

3. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Parkinson’s.
(c) Alzheimer’s.
(d) Cancer.

4. Where was the first assisted living facility founded?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Michigan.
(d) California.

5. How many hospitals does Gawande say were built after Congress passed the Hill Burton Act, to provide funds for hospital construction?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 850.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 4,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made the Harry Truman Gawande describes a hero in his townspeople’s eyes?

2. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?

3. Where does Gawande say Lou Sanders had grown up?

4. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?

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

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