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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 percent of Americans does Gawande say died at home in the 1980s?
(a) 17%.
(b) 32%.
(c) 44%.
(d) More than half.
2. What other pets did Chase Memorial also eventually adopt?
(a) Horses.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Pigs.
3. When does Gawande say developments in the field of palliative will provide cause for celebration in medical circles?
(a) Whenever they improve the quality of someone’s life and death.
(b) When they spread to other fields of medicine.
(c) When they apply to every patient.
(d) Every time they touch a patient.
4. In what way do doctors “inflict deep gouges at the end of people’s lives,” in Gawande’s opinion?
(a) By allowing the most fearful voices to dominate discussions about mortality.
(b) By drugging people so that they do not have their own experiences.
(c) By denying the importance of the dying role.
(d) By inflicting needless treatments.
5. What does Kahneman say are our two selves?
(a) Desiring and regretting.
(b) Experiencing and remembering.
(c) Planning and executing.
(d) Grieving and longing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
2. What does Gawande say is the priority for hospice care?
3. What was the effect of Thomas’ first project?
4. How does Gawande characterize his faith in Hinduism?
5. Where had Thomas worked before Chase Memorial?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the priorities Gawande says people have, at the end of their lives, that go beyond “prolonging their lives” (155)?
2. What triumph of Gawande’s was Gawande’s father able to witness, in his declining health?
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. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?
5. How did Gawande and his mother differ on the question of how to handle Gawande’s father’s care as death came closer?
6. What does Daniel Kahneman’s research tell Gawande about painful experiences?
7. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?
8. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
9. How does Gawande say that dealing with elderly patients changed his medical approach?
10. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?
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