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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 is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Falling.
(c) Choking.
(d) Heart attacks.
2. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?
(a) Powerful interests prevent it.
(b) People have not organized enough to demand it.
(c) We do not have the imagination for it.
(d) There is not enough profit in it.
3. What does Gawande say your chances of avoiding a nursing home depend on?
(a) Having a younger spouse.
(b) How much money you have.
(c) Having sons.
(d) How many children you have.
4. When does Gawande say Lou Sanders became a widower?
(a) At 63.
(b) At 81.
(c) At 76.
(d) At 56.
5. What does Gawande say Wilson’s assisted living facilities protected?
(a) Community.
(b) Public health.
(c) Privacy.
(d) Autonomy.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to James Vaupel’s research, how much of your parents’ lifespans determines your own?
2. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?
3. How many hospitals does Gawande say were built after Congress passed the Hill Burton Act, to provide funds for hospital construction?
4. How does Gawande characterize the state of the medical profession in the face of scientific advances that prolonged life and made dying a medical decision?
5. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gawande describe his personal reaction to his patients’ deaths?
2. How does Gawande characterize Ivan Ilych’s experience of dying?
3. What kind of conditions does Gawande witness at the Guru Vishram Vridh ashram in India?
4. How is the story of Lou and Shelly different from Alice Hobson's death?
5. What critique does Gawande make of his colleagues in the medical field?
6. What does Gawande say he learned from Mabel Nassau’s study of elderly people in Greenwich Village?
7. Who was the first person Gawande says he personally witnessed get old and decline?
8. What perspective does Gawande’s father offer on Alice Hobson’s aging process?
9. How does Gawande describe the transition from traditional forms of elder care to the (failing) modern forms of care?
10. How does Gawande describe his exposure to training about mortality in medical school?
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