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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. Why does Dave Galloway say he does not want to take his pain medication when his cancer is troubling him?
(a) He says that it makes him depressed.
(b) He says that it feels like a defeat.
(c) He says that it takes him from his wife and child.
(d) He says that it makes him panic to be so close to death.

2. What does a patient base their impression of pain on, according to researcher Daniel Kahneman?
(a) The most painful and the last moments of a procedure.
(b) An average of all the pain in the procedure.
(c) The residual pain at the end of the procedure.
(d) A snapshot of the most painful moment.

3. What does Jewel Douglas want Gawande to avoid in his operation?
(a) Long shots.
(b) Heroic measures.
(c) Risky chances.
(d) Painful moments.

4. What does Gawande say changed Bill Thomas’ life to raise his expectations?
(a) An impromptu interview with a college admissions officer.
(b) High marks on a college prep test.
(c) A chance discussion with a family friend.
(d) A sports scholarship.

5. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?
(a) The Companion.
(b) Mr. Information.
(c) The Expert.
(d) The Interpretive Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other pets did Chase Memorial also eventually adopt?

2. How does Gawande characterize the operation he ultimately performed on Jewel Douglas?

3. What factor correlated with the greatest inaccuracies when doctors estimated their patients’ survival times?

4. What does Gawande say our job is, in medicine?

5. How many parakeets did Bill Thomas introduce to Chase Memorial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gawande say are the advantages of the New Bridge on the Charles retirement community?

2. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?

3. How does Gawande characterize his faith in his people’s religion, and how does he describe his participation in the Hindu ritual for dispersing his father’s remains?

4. What does Sara Monopoli’s story illustrate?

5. How does Gawande describe what the real job of people in medicine should be?

6. How does Gawande characterize the ceremony for disposing of his father’s ashes?

7. In the metaphor of death as the enemy, which general’s philosophy does Gawande say patients should want to emulate?

8. What effect did Thomas’ changes have on the residents?

9. What stance does Gawande take on the concept of “assisted suicide” (243)?

10. What are the priorities Gawande says people have, at the end of their lives, that go beyond “prolonging their lives” (155)?

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