2. 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) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?
(a) Her father’s dementia.
(b) Her own epilepsy.
(c) Her child’s medical needs.
(d) Her mother’s stroke.

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

5. Where does Gawande say he witnessed the most hellish conditions of his life?
(a) An elder home in India.
(b) A prison in Portugal.
(c) A nursing home in the American South.
(d) An insane asylum in Belgium.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(b) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(c) His chance of survival was so thin.
(d) His determination to live was otherworldly.

11. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Choking.
(c) Falling.
(d) Heart attacks.

12. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?
(a) Because we have alienated generations of youth.
(b) Because our families have been broken by emigration.
(c) Because we cannot afford them.
(d) Because we do not want them.

13. What made the Harry Truman Gawande describes a hero in his townspeople’s eyes?
(a) He weathered out the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens.
(b) He saved his neighbors from the fallout when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.
(c) He used being-buried-by-a-volcano as a retirement plan.
(d) He defied the odds and survived a deadly cancer.

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

15. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?
(a) He had a grandfather living with him and saw his decline in detail.
(b) He was surrounded by rural poverty and high mortality.
(c) He had almost no exposure.
(d) He had a period when a lot of his friends’ grandparents and relatives were sick or died in a cluster.