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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Wade Boggs, the Boton Red Sox's former star third baseman, always eat before a game?
(a) Pork.
(b) A large salad.
(c) Chicken.
(d) A T-bone.

2. What did Quinlan hurt when he fell off a plank at a construction site?
(a) Broke his femur.
(b) Crushed his ankle.
(c) Fractured his hip.
(d) Dislocated and fractured his shoulder.

3. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove an appendix.
(b) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.
(c) Surgery to remove colon cancer.
(d) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.

4. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) Mid-October.
(d) July.

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

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

7. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 5,300.
(b) 4,200.
(c) 6,100.
(d) 3,500.

8. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1990.

9. Who was the San Diego surgeon working without a license who bungled some sex-change operations and amputated the leg of a healthy man?
(a) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(b) John Ronald Brown.
(c) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(d) Martin David White.

10. How long do hernia operations take at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 20-25 minutes.
(b) About an hour.
(c) 30-45 minutes.
(d) About 90 minutes.

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

12. Who was the staff surgeon in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) Matt Provin.
(b) Michael Ball.
(c) Mitchell Davidson.
(d) Malcom Wiggins.

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

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

15. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?

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

3. For over a decade, how many hours did Goodman work a week?

4. During what year of his training does Gawande have a chance to attend a surgeons convention?

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?

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