2. What does Gawande say he tried to impress on Lazaroff?
(a) The likelihood the treatment would fail.
(b) The chance of paralysis after surgery.
(c) The inevitability of death.
(d) The risks of surgery.

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

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

5. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?
(a) Veneration of cultural traditions.
(b) Veneration of prosperity.
(c) Veneration of the independent self.
(d) Veneration of religious figures.

6. What does Ivan Ilych die of?
(a) An unnamed disease.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Malnourishment.
(d) Cholera.

7. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(b) Mikhail Lermontov.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

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

9. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
(a) Foods that cause ulcers.
(b) Foods that lead to weight gain.
(c) Foods that cause cavities.
(d) Foods that lack key nutrients.

10. Where did Del Webb, who popularized the term “retirement community” build his first development?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Alabama.

11. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?
(a) That he was responsible for their souls.
(b) That he had killed them.
(c) That they had come to kill him.
(d) That he had betrayed them.

12. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?
(a) The story that he would just get better.
(b) The lie that he was not really dying.
(c) The indifference his family felt.
(d) The impotence of his doctors.

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

14. Who does Keren Wilson say assisted living facilities are ultimately built for?
(a) Older people’s children.
(b) Investors.
(c) Elderly people.
(d) Administrators.

15. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 2017?
(a) 29%.
(b) 31%.
(c) 22%.
(d) 14%.