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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What functions are affected by this first shrinking of the brain?
(a) Abstract thinking.
(b) Language.
(c) Planning.
(d) Judgment.

2. When does Gawande say Lou Sanders became a widower?
(a) At 56.
(b) At 76.
(c) At 63.
(d) At 81.

3. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
(a) Foods that cause cavities.
(b) Foods that lead to weight gain.
(c) Foods that cause ulcers.
(d) Foods that lack key nutrients.

4. How does Gawande say Alice’s family dealt with her depression?
(a) They put her on depression medication.
(b) They enrolled her in classes at the local university.
(c) They found her a better situation.
(d) They brought her a cat and house plants.

5. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?
(a) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.
(b) They came to America and worked their way up.
(c) They harvested a bumper crop that paid their debts.
(d) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say was the concept Wilson incorporated in her assisted living facility idea?

2. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?

3. How much of the population does Gawande say is over 65 in Germany, Italy and Japan in 2017?

4. How does Gawande characterize the similarity between nursing homes and prisons?

5. What does Gawande say the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the future of geriatrics as a field?

2. How does Lou Sanders’ story mark a development of Gawande’s argument in Being Mortal?

3. What is the triumph in the story of Felix and Bella Silverstone?

4. Who was the first person Gawande says he personally witnessed get old and decline?

5. What happened to Keren Wilson’s vision of assisted living facilities, as the idea took off?

6. How does Gawande characterize the finances of geriatrics?

7. When did the experience of aging and dying come home for Gawande?

8. How does Gawande characterize Ivan Ilych’s experience of dying?

9. How does Gawande use graphs to characterize the decline of people’s health?

10. Why does Gawande say doctors do not want to practice geriatrics?

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