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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 what book was a man programmed away from brutality by coupling his violent urges with feelings of nausea?
(a) Clockwork Orange.
(b) Love and Nausea.
(c) The Criminal and Nausea.
(d) Nausea.

2. Since 1998, how many operations have been performed to stop severe blushing?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 500.

3. How old was the patient who needed a central line?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) Fiftyish.
(c) In his forties.
(d) In his thirties.

4. 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.

5. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?
(a) Wagner Westford.
(b) Brandon Wyatt.
(c) Lance Bridger.
(d) William Feller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Turk Wendell insist that his salary be for the 1999 season?

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

3. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?

4. How many studies did Gawande find when doing a computer search to attempt to identify "circalunidian" cycles?

5. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?

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