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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 many pregnant woman who are employed miss work because of morning sickness?
(a) One fourth.
(b) Two thirds.
(c) Half.
(d) One third.

2. When was a manuscript written that described putting delinquent juveniles inside a box outside town hall that would be spun at high speed until the youth vomited?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1914.

3. How many of Noe's children died?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

4. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

5. What percentage of workers' compensation payments are paid to sufferers of back pain?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

2. What color cast did Gawande's daughter Hattie get when she broke her forearm?

3. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

4. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?

5. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?

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