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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. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1983.
2. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) In visits to his father’s village.
(b) In college.
(c) In medical school.
(d) As a young child.
3. How does Gawande characterize Felix’ feelings when his wife dies?
(a) Dismembered.
(b) Discombobulated.
(c) Distraught.
(d) Disoriented.
4. Where does Gawande say Lou Sanders had grown up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Boston.
(d) Baltimore.
5. How does Gawande characterize the similarity between nursing homes and prisons?
(a) They both house mostly poor people.
(b) They are both punitive.
(c) They are both total institutions.
(d) They are both state-run.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Mabel Nassau conduct the study of elderly in Greenwich Village, that Gawande cites?
2. What was the event that triggered a readjustment in Felix Silverstone’s life?
3. What was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?
4. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
5. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gawande explain the fact that our culture has not developed methods for providing better care for the elderly?
2. How does Gawande characterize the future of geriatrics as a field?
3. How is the story of Lou and Shelly different from Alice Hobson's death?
4. Who was the first person Gawande says he personally witnessed get old and decline?
5. How does Lou Sanders’ story mark a development of Gawande’s argument in Being Mortal?
6. How does Gawande characterize the problems surrounding Alice Hobson’s declining health?
7. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather’s aging and death?
8. How does Gawande describe his exposure to training about mortality in medical school?
9. How does Gawande describe the development of this problem in medicine?
10. What perspective does Gawande’s father offer on Alice Hobson’s aging process?
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