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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 Ronald Dworkin says is the heart of a meaningful life?
(a) To have material stability and comfort.
(b) To be well respected by good people.
(c) The ability to be the author of your own story.
(d) To be free from fear.

2. Where does Gawande say five of the world’s fastest-growing economies are?
(a) Asia.
(b) South America.
(c) The Middle East.
(d) Africa.

3. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?
(a) He was more of an expert.
(b) He made the better promises for the outcome of a surgery.
(c) He paid close attention to their needs.
(d) He had more experience with Gawande’s father’s type of tumor.

4. What did Gawande’s father make Gawande promise him?
(a) He would not let his pain embarrass him.
(b) He would not be alone when it was time.
(c) He would not go a nursing home.
(d) He would not let him suffer.

5. What does Gawande say is the priority for hospice care?
(a) To provide peace and comfort.
(b) To wrap up a life.
(c) Help people have the fullest lives possible.
(d) To extend life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?

2. By what rate did the death rate decline at Chase, after the introduction of animals?

3. How does Gawande characterize the effect of introducing animals to Chase Memorial?

4. How does Gawande characterize the hope of a cure that entices people into what he calls the multitrillion-dollar medical system?

5. What did Gawande see stacked along the river bank when he and his guide set out to dispose of his father’s ashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?

2. How does Gawande say the western medical model is spreading throughout the world?

3. What does Sara Monopoli’s story illustrate?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Gawande ending on a personal note?

5. What compromises does Gawande make, to give Jewel Douglass a “palliative operation” (240)?

6. How do Gawande’s father’s two doctors approach his condition differently?

7. 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?

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. How does Gawande say that dealing with elderly patients changed his medical approach?

10. What triumph of Gawande’s was Gawande’s father able to witness, in his declining health?

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