2. What does Gawande say Lou Sanders was scared of?
(a) Suffering with cancer.
(b) Dying.
(c) Dying alone.
(d) Losing his ability to drive.

3. By what factor does Gawande say the cost of living in a nursing home exceeds the cost of living in an assisted living facility?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

4. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather Sitaram Gawande’s elder years?
(a) Alone in an asylum.
(b) Surrounded by family.
(c) Traveling independently.
(d) Bouncing back and forth between family members.

5. How does Gawande say Philip Roth characterizes old age?
(a) A massacre.
(b) A warm bath.
(c) A fuzzy puzzle.
(d) A series of dislocations.

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

7. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for the majority of people who age normally with modern medicine?
(a) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(b) A high line that ends abruptly.
(c) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.
(d) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.

8. What does Lou Sanders’ daughter Shelley compare him to when he comes to live with her and her family?
(a) A restless dog that cannot settle.
(b) A kid getting on the bus.
(c) A nervous girl making new friends.
(d) A cornered old turtle.

9. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?
(a) The cost of the treatment.
(b) The reality of his disease.
(c) The likelihood the treatment would fail.
(d) The side effects to chemotherapy.

10. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?
(a) She is his old piano teacher.
(b) She is his wife’s grandmother.
(c) She is his daughter’s piano teacher.
(d) She is his adopted grandmother.

11. What was the average number of children per family in the mid-1800s, and what was it by 1900?
(a) 7; 3.
(b) 9; 2.
(c) 6; 4.
(d) 5; 5.

12. 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.

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

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

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