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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?
(a) 32,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 45,000.
(d) 52,000.

2. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?
(a) Zemmiphobia.
(b) Acrophobia.
(c) Ballistophobia.
(d) Paraskevidekatriaphobia.

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) A little over the legal limit.
(c) 3 times the legal limit.
(d) Just under the legal limit.

4. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

5. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 10:30 p.m.
(c) 8 p.m.
(d) 9 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?

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

3. During what week in Fitzpatrick's pregnancy was she able to eat an odd selection of four things in sliver-size portions?

4. During the gastric-bypass surgery, to what size was Caselli's stomach reduced to?

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

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