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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 was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?
(a) Comfort care.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Assisted suicide.
(d) Doing nothing.

2. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?
(a) To be remembered.
(b) To be lionized.
(c) To be celebrated.
(d) To be pitied.

3. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
(a) 56.
(b) 28.
(c) 32.
(d) 48.

4. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Alzheimer’s.
(c) Parkinson’s.
(d) Cancer.

5. Who does Keren Wilson say assisted living facilities are ultimately built for?
(a) Elderly people.
(b) Investors.
(c) Older people’s children.
(d) Administrators.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather Sitaram Gawande’s elder years?

2. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?

3. What was the event that triggered a readjustment in Felix Silverstone’s life?

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

5. What does Gawande say made Alice Hobson unhappy with her assisted living facility?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Gawande describe the development of this problem in medicine?

3. What conclusions does Gawande draw from the case of Joseph Lazaroff?

4. What perspective does Gawande’s father offer on Alice Hobson’s aging process?

5. How does Gawande characterize the finances of geriatrics?

6. What does Gawande say he learned from Mabel Nassau’s study of elderly people in Greenwich Village?

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

8. How does Gawande characterize the problems surrounding Alice Hobson’s declining health?

9. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather’s aging and death?

10. What critique does Gawande make of his colleagues in the medical field?

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