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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. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) Had a fractured finger.
(b) Had a piece of wire in her hand.
(c) Had a fractured ankle.
(d) Had a 3-inch screw in her foot.

2. How much money did Goodman make in a year when he was doing well?
(a) $400,000.
(b) $250,000.
(c) $300,000.
(d) $500,000.

3. How many companies were registered in attendance at the surgeons convention?
(a) About 1700 companies.
(b) Some 1200 companies.
(c) About 900 companies.
(d) Around 300 companies.

4. Who is the doctor who was convicted of murdering fifteen patients with lethal doses of narcotics?
(a) Henry Whitman.
(b) Gary Manson.
(c) Harold Shipman.
(d) David Andreson.

5. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?
(a) Johnny Carson.
(b) David Letterman.
(c) Steve Allen.
(d) Jay Leno.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many surgeons attended the American College of Surgeons convention?

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

3. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?

4. When was Marie Noe giving birth to her children?

5. How old was the pathology assistant who did the dissection for the autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut"?

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