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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?
(a) He was more of an expert.
(b) He made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.
(c) He paid close attention to their needs.
(d) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.

2. Why does Dave Galloway say he does not want to take his pain medication when his cancer is troubling him?
(a) He says that it feels like a defeat.
(b) He says that it takes him from his wife and child.
(c) He says that it makes him panic to be so close to death.
(d) He says that it makes him depressed.

3. How does Gawande characterize the onset of treatment for his father’s tumor?
(a) As an opportunity to practice what he had learned to preach.
(b) As a tragedy that struck too early.
(c) As a test for what he had learned about mortality.
(d) As a punishment for not having taken better care of his father.

4. How does Gawande say he answered when his patient’s family asked if his patient was dying?
(a) He could only explain all the variables.
(b) He lied and said no.
(c) He could not answer.
(d) He could not bring himself to tell the truth.

5. How does Gawande characterize the effect of introducing animals to Chase Memorial?
(a) Terror.
(b) Hilarity.
(c) Pandemonium.
(d) Happy confusion.

6. Whose story does Gawande say is “going global” (192)?
(a) Alice Hobson.
(b) Sara Monopoli.
(c) His father’s.
(d) Lou Sanders.

7. What does Gawande say happens in the third stage of a country’s health care development?
(a) Patients die in the hospital.
(b) Patients die at home for lack of access to health care.
(c) Patients die in poor houses and nursing homes.
(d) Patients return home to die in comfort.

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

9. How many varieties of chemotherapy did Sara Monopoli try?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

10. What does Gawande say a person is assured of, if their ashes touch the Ganges River?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Eternal peace.
(c) Forgetfulness.
(d) Eternal salvation.

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

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

13. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
(a) Strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
(b) Endurance of the soul.
(c) Discrimination to understand what should be hoped or feared.
(d) Wise endurance.

14. What does Gawande say Jewel Douglas’ death showed him?
(a) That family is important in dying.
(b) That dignity in death takes a lot of work and planning.
(c) That sometimes doing nothing is better.
(d) That we are not powerless in the end.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the effect of Thomas’ first project?

2. What other pets did Chase Memorial also eventually adopt?

3. Of the people who died in hospice care in the U.S. in 2010, what percent does Gawande say died at home?

4. What was the first place Gawande’s father wanted his ashes scattered?

5. What argument does Gawande give for allowing people to die with prescription drugs?

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