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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 diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Parkinson’s.
(c) Alzheimer’s.
(d) Cancer.
2. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?
(a) Because our families have been broken by emigration.
(b) Because we do not want them.
(c) Because we have alienated generations of youth.
(d) Because we cannot afford them.
3. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?
(a) Her mother’s stroke.
(b) Her own epilepsy.
(c) Her father’s dementia.
(d) Her child’s medical needs.
4. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) In college.
(b) As a young child.
(c) In medical school.
(d) In visits to his father’s village.
5. What does Gawande say made Alice Hobson unhappy with her assisted living facility?
(a) Being surrounded by old people.
(b) The rigid schedule.
(c) The smelly food.
(d) The loss of autonomy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gawande say Wilson’s assisted living facilities protected?
2. How does Gawande characterize the decline of health for people with “chronic illnesses—emphysema, liver disease, and congestive heart failure”?
3. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
4. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?
5. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the challenges Gawande describes in Alice Hobson’s declining health?
2. Why does Gawande say doctors do not want to practice geriatrics?
3. How does Gawande characterize the finances of geriatrics?
4. What events led to Alice Hobson saying “I’m ready” to her son, and then dying?
5. How does Gawande characterize the future of geriatrics as a field?
6. What critique does Gawande make of his colleagues in the medical field?
7. What perspective does Gawande’s father offer on Alice Hobson’s aging process?
8. What is the triumph in the story of Felix and Bella Silverstone?
9. How does Gawande characterize Ivan Ilych’s experience of dying?
10. When does Gawande say that we acquired the medical system in which people hand over their autonomy to doctors?
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