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

3. What was Gawande’s father’s profession?
(a) Urologist.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Executive.

4. What does Gawande say your chances of avoiding a nursing home depend on?
(a) How many children you have.
(b) Having sons.
(c) How much money you have.
(d) Having a younger spouse.

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

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

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

8. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?
(a) A high line that ends abruptly.
(b) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(c) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.
(d) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.

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

10. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for people with “chronic illnesses—emphysema, liver disease, and congestive heart failure”?
(a) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.
(b) A high line that ends abruptly.
(c) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(d) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.

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

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

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

14. How does Gawande say Philip Roth characterizes old age?
(a) A warm bath.
(b) A massacre.
(c) A series of dislocations.
(d) A fuzzy puzzle.

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