2. 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 a period when a lot of his friends’ grandparents and relatives were sick or died in a cluster.
(d) He had almost no exposure.

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

4. What does Gawande say Felix Silverstone’s wife found exasperating about being in a nursing home floor while her bones mended?
(a) Felix was no longer around to take care of her.
(b) The staff did not perform all the help she needed.
(c) The staff were unprofessional.
(d) The nurses did not comb her hair the way she preferred.

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

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

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

8. What was the default option for poor elderly people in the time of Mabel’s study?
(a) Live with family.
(b) Homelessness.
(c) State-sponsored retirement communities.
(d) Poorhouse.

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

10. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1976.

11. 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 likelihood the treatment would fail.
(c) The side effects to chemotherapy.
(d) The cost of the treatment.

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

13. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Delusional.

14. 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.

15. What was the event that triggered a readjustment in Felix Silverstone’s life?
(a) His wife lost her vision.
(b) He had a heart attack.
(c) His wife’s eardrum burst.
(d) He was diagnosed with cancer.