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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. How many spoonfuls of Ganges water did Gawande drink, as part of his father’s funeral service?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

3. What do the doctors from Uganda and the writer from South Africa say about American medical care?
(a) It clearly benefits the rich.
(b) It is biased against people of color and the poor.
(c) It is obviously wasteful.
(d) No one in their countries could afford it.

4. What does Kahneman say are our two selves?
(a) Grieving and longing.
(b) Experiencing and remembering.
(c) Desiring and regretting.
(d) Planning and executing.

5. How does Gawande characterize the people who spend the last days of their life in the ICU?
(a) A crime.
(b) A failure.
(c) A tragedy.
(d) A malpractice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say being mortal is about?

2. Where had Thomas worked before Chase Memorial?

3. How does Gawande characterize the phase of cultural development we are in, with regard to care for the sick and dying?

4. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?

5. What was the effect of Thomas’ first project?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Gawande say goes into a “comfort pack” (162)?

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

8. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?

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

10. What was Bill Thomas’ idea for bringing more self-reliance to the residents of Chase Memorial?

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