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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what margin does Gawande say costs came down in Keren Wilson’s assisted living facility?
(a) 20%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 10%.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?
(a) Cure him.
(b) Demonstrate heroism in trying to save his life.
(c) Provide an easy death.
(d) Manage his condition.

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

10. When does Gawande say Keren Wilson founded the first assisted living facility?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1962.

11. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?
(a) To be pitied.
(b) To be celebrated.
(c) To be remembered.
(d) To be lionized.

12. Where does Gawande say Lou Sanders had grown up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Boston.
(d) Baltimore.

13. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for people with “chronic illnesses—emphysema, liver disease, and congestive heart failure”?
(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 series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(d) A high line that ends abruptly.

14. By what age does Gawande say most people have functional dementia?
(a) 75.
(b) 70.
(c) 85.
(d) 65.

15. When did Mabel Nassau conduct the study of elderly in Greenwich Village, that Gawande cites?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?

2. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?

3. What does Ivan Ilych die of?

4. What was Lazaroff’s response to Gawande’s insistence?

5. Where does Gawande say he witnessed the most hellish conditions of his life?

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