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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. When did Bill Thomas take over as director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1972.
2. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
(a) Strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped.
(b) Endurance of the soul.
(c) Discrimination to understand what should be hoped or feared.
(d) Wise endurance.
3. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?
(a) The Interpretive Doctor.
(b) The Companion.
(c) The Expert.
(d) Mr. Information.
4. What does Gawande say his father’s chance of being paralyzed by surgery were?
(a) 1 in 20.
(b) 1 in 4.
(c) 1 in 10.
(d) 1 in 6
5. Which of Gawande’s patients showed him “how understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift” (209)?
(a) Jewel Douglas.
(b) Lou Sanders.
(c) Sara Monopoli.
(d) Joseph Lazaroff.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much of Medicare spending goes to the 5% of patients who are in their last year of life?
2. When does Gawande say developments in the field of palliative will provide cause for celebration in medical circles?
3. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?
4. What was the second place Gawande’s father wanted his ashes scattered?
5. What does Jewel Douglas want Gawande to avoid in his operation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
2. How did Bill Thomas’ idea play out?
3. What does Gawande say goes into a “comfort pack” (162)?
4. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?
5. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?
6. How does Gawande say the western medical model is spreading throughout the world?
7. What compromises does Gawande make, to give Jewel Douglass a “palliative operation” (240)?
8. How did Gawande and his mother differ on the question of how to handle Gawande’s father’s care as death came closer?
9. What does Daniel Kahneman’s research tell Gawande about painful experiences?
10. What are the instructions Gawande’s father left, for the disposal of his remains?
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