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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 was Thomas’ explanation for the decline in the death rate?
2. Where does Gawande say five of the world’s fastest-growing economies are?
3. What does Jewel Douglas want Gawande to avoid in his operation?
4. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?
5. What does Gawande say is the priority for hospice care?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Bill Thomas’ idea for bringing more self-reliance to the residents of Chase Memorial?
2. What stance does Gawande take on the concept of “assisted suicide” (243)?
3. What technique does Atul Gawande learn from a palliative care physician, and use with Jewel Douglass?
4. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?
5. What does Sara Monopoli’s story illustrate?
6. 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?
7. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
8. What triumph of Gawande’s was Gawande’s father able to witness, in his declining health?
9. What are the priorities Gawande says people have, at the end of their lives, that go beyond “prolonging their lives” (155)?
10. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices he makes in terms of description, characterization and information presentation? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
Essay Topic 2
What are the emotions Gawande’s book makes you feel, and how do those emotions affect you? Do they make you want to take action, or avoid action? What stories do you tell yourself to protect yourself from the harder emotions in Gawande’s narrative?
Essay Topic 3
What are the key omissions in Being Mortal? Where is Gawande missing key points about Americans’ experiences of death and dying? How do class or gender change Gawande’s narrative? How do different peoples within America experience different realities than the story Gawande tells?
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