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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dead Baby Mystery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?
(a) 27.
(b) 38.
(c) 32.
(d) 41.

2. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?
(a) Norway.
(b) Holland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Sweden.

3. What is the second most common reason why employees miss work?
(a) Chronic back pain.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Flu.
(d) Cold.

4. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?
(a) 56.
(b) 48.
(c) 51.
(d) 62.

5. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove an appendix.
(b) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.
(c) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(d) Surgery to remove colon cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What network did Christine Drury work for when she was the overnight anchorwoman?

2. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?

3. Who was the gynecologist from Ohio who subjected hundreds of women when they had been anesthetized for other procedures to bizarre disfiguring procedures that he called the Surgery of Love?

4. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?

5. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

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