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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?
(a) Assisted suicide.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Doing nothing.
(d) Comfort care.

3. What does Gawande say Wilson’s assisted living facilities protected?
(a) Privacy.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) Community.
(d) Public health.

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

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

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

7. How much of the population does Gawande say is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?
(a) More than 26%.
(b) More than 24%.
(c) More than 20%.
(d) More than 28%.

8. What does Gawande say made Alice Hobson unhappy with her assisted living facility?
(a) The rigid schedule.
(b) The loss of autonomy.
(c) The smelly food.
(d) Being surrounded by old people.

9. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?
(a) Powerful interests prevent it.
(b) We do not have the imagination for it.
(c) People have not organized enough to demand it.
(d) There is not enough profit in it.

10. What does Gawande say Montaigne said about dying of old age?
(a) It is the kindest form of dying.
(b) It is the extremest form of dying.
(c) It is the cruelest form of dying.
(d) It is the most natural form of dying.

11. In what way is Lou Sanders’ decision to move in with his daughter not successful?
(a) He cannot make friends.
(b) His care is taxing for Shelley.
(c) His care costs more than his family can afford.
(d) He is depressed and lonely.

12. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
(a) Weakening.
(b) Softening.
(c) Thinning.
(d) Stiffening.

13. When were retirement communities popularized in the U.S.?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1950s.

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

15. 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 lack key nutrients.
(d) Foods that cause cavities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Mabel Nassau conduct the study of elderly in Greenwich Village, that Gawande cites?

4. What does Gawande say Laura Carstensen found in terms of people’s values in life?

5. What kind of system does Gawande compare human bodies to?

(see the answer keys)

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