2. What is moksha?
(a) Forgiveness for sins.
(b) Assurance of justice.
(c) Release from suffering.
(d) Liberation from earthly life.

3. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?
(a) 32%.
(b) 64%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 24%.

4. What does Gawande say Ronald Dworkin says is the heart of a meaningful life?
(a) To have material stability and comfort.
(b) To be well respected by good people.
(c) To be free from fear.
(d) The ability to be the author of your own story.

5. What was Sara Monopoli’s strategy for making treatment decisions?
(a) Maximum quality of life.
(b) Aggressive management.
(c) Minimal invasiveness.
(d) Most tolerable treatment.

6. What argument does Gawande give for preventing people from committing suicide?
(a) Society has an interest in keeping people on board.
(b) People do not always know their desires.
(c) Society knows better than the individual.
(d) Pain is often temporary.

7. How many people were assigned to each “pod” at the New Bridge assisted living facility?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 22.
(d) 12.

8. What is a pandit?
(a) A holy man.
(b) A professional mourner.
(c) A funeral guide.
(d) A boatman.

9. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?
(a) Consider the effect of treatment on their family units.
(b) Weigh the cost effectiveness of each treatment.
(c) Find the most drastic cures and treatments.
(d) Resist the urge to toy with their health.

10. How does Gawande characterize his faith in Hinduism?
(a) He says that he is a hostile skeptic.
(b) He says that he is not much of a believer.
(c) He says that he is a fervent believer.
(d) He says that he is practical, and it does not matter what he believes if he follows the rites.

11. When does Gawande say developments in the field of palliative will provide cause for celebration in medical circles?
(a) Whenever they improve the quality of someone’s life and death.
(b) Every time they touch a patient.
(c) When they spread to other fields of medicine.
(d) When they apply to every patient.

12. How many spoonfuls of Ganges water did Gawande drink, as part of his father’s funeral service?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

13. What does Gawande say is most important about the end of Jewel Douglas’ story?
(a) It was brief.
(b) It was painless.
(c) She decided how it would go.
(d) She was alert to the end.

14. How does Gawande say his father found peace and gave him and the other around him peace as well?
(a) By saying what he wanted so his desires could be honored.
(b) By deciding to forego heroic treatments.
(c) By having performed good works as a member of his society.
(d) By leaving money to those after him.

15. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died at home at the end of the second World War?
(a) More than half.
(b) 32%.
(c) 44%.
(d) 17%.