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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 does Gawande say Ilych wanted?
(a) To be lionized.
(b) To be pitied.
(c) To be remembered.
(d) To be celebrated.
2. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?
(a) Surgical residency.
(b) First year of medical school.
(c) In college.
(d) During a sabbatical.
3. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Heart attacks.
(b) Falling.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Choking.
4. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) As a young child.
(b) In medical school.
(c) In visits to his father’s village.
(d) In college.
5. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
(a) Political conflict.
(b) Famine.
(c) Prosperity.
(d) Emigration.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Gawande characterize Felix’ feelings when his wife dies?
2. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?
3. When does Gawande say Keren Wilson founded the first assisted living facility?
4. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
5. How does Gawande characterize the corpse he was given to work with, his first semester of medical school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to Keren Wilson’s vision of assisted living facilities, as the idea took off?
2. What is rectangularization, and how does it affect society?
3. What are the challenges Gawande describes in Alice Hobson’s declining health?
4. How does Gawande describe his personal reaction to his patients’ deaths?
5. How does Gawande use graphs to characterize the decline of people’s health?
6. How does Lou Sanders’ story mark a development of Gawande’s argument in Being Mortal?
7. How does Gawande characterize Ivan Ilych’s experience of dying?
8. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather’s aging and death?
9. What critique does Gawande make of his colleagues in the medical field?
10. How does Gawande characterize the problems surrounding Alice Hobson’s declining health?
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