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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?
(a) Errors and Medicine.
(b) Fatal System Error.
(c) No Room for Error.
(d) Human Error.

2. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?
(a) Complaints from other surgeons.
(b) Too many lawsuits.
(c) Complaints from patients.
(d) Not attending the M&M conferences.

3. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) About twice the legal limit.
(b) 3 times the legal limit.
(c) Just under the legal limit.
(d) A little over the legal limit.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many weeks had Gawande been in training?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

5. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) 10 p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many siblings does Goodman have?

2. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?

3. What type of a necklace did New York Mets' pitcher Turk Wendell always wear?

4. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?

5. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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