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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, after considering Plato’s dialogue “Laches”?
2. What was Thomas’ first project when he arrived at Chase?
3. What does Gawande say are the three plagues of nursing homes?
4. What was Thomas’ explanation for the decline in the death rate?
5. What percentage of doctors in Nicholas Christakis’ study overestimated their patients’ survival time?
Short Essay Questions
1. What definition of courage does Gawande arrive at, from his discussion of Plato’s Laches dialogue?
2. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?
3. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?
4. What compromises does Gawande make, to give Jewel Douglass a “palliative operation” (240)?
5. What are the priorities Gawande says people have, at the end of their lives, that go beyond “prolonging their lives” (155)?
6. What are the instructions Gawande’s father left, for the disposal of his remains?
7. What technique does Atul Gawande learn from a palliative care physician, and use with Jewel Douglass?
8. What does Daniel Kahneman’s research tell Gawande about painful experiences?
9. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
10. What does Gawande say are the advantages of the New Bridge on the Charles retirement community?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is Being Mortal most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
Which character does Gawande connect you with most intensely? Why? What part of the story did you connect with? Which individuals were you least connected to, or even put off by? How does Gawande guide your sympathies in his storytelling?
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