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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 old was Noe's husband when she plead to guilty to killing her children?
(a) 77.
(b) 81.
(c) 78.
(d) 80.

2. How many scientific studies did Gawande find that assessed whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

4. Who originated the explanation of pain that has dominated much of medical history?
(a) Henry K. Beecher.
(b) Baruch Spinoza.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Gottfried Leibnitz.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Wade Boggs, the Boton Red Sox's former star third baseman, always eat before a game?

2. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

3. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

4. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

5. What percent of Americans does a 1995 poll show believe that the moon alters individual behavior?

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