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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the first patient for whom Gawande was expected to request an autopsy?
(a) 71.
(b) 75.
(c) 81.
(d) 69.

2. Over the course of four days, how many times did Bratton's leg need to be operated upon?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 2 times.
(d) 3 times.

3. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

4. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?
(a) Yonkers, New York.
(b) Baltimore, Maryland.
(c) Alexandria, Virginia.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

5. How much did the recovery room nurse at Gawande's hospital weigh at one time?
(a) About 300 pounds.
(b) About 350 pounds.
(c) Over 250 pounds.
(d) Around 400 pounds.

6. How many pounds does Caselli estimate he had lost and gained in his life?
(a) 700 pounds.
(b) 800 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 1,000 pounds.

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

8. What percent of people who have necrotizing fasciitis die?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

9. When did Lazaroff's son tell the neurosurgeon that they should stop treating his father?
(a) 3 weeks after his spinal sugery.
(b) 7 days after his spinal surgery.
(c) 14 days after his spinal surgery.
(d) 2 days after his spinal surgery.

10. How old was Lazaroff?
(a) Early sixties.
(b) Early eighties.
(c) Early seventies.
(d) Early fifties.

11. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?
(a) A few weeks before.
(b) 5 days before.
(c) 2 days before.
(d) 3 week before.

12. What time did the retired New England doctor pass away?
(a) 5:30 a.m.
(b) 2:45 a.m.
(c) 12:30 a.m.
(d) 1:45 a.m.

13. How many children did Marie Noe have?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

14. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) 5 to 20 percent.
(b) About 35 percent.
(c) 1 to 10 percent.
(d) About 25 percent.

15. When was Marie Noe giving birth to her children?
(a) 1945 to 1960.
(b) 1950 to 1965.
(c) 1949 to 1968.
(d) 1970 to 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many cases of necrotizing fasciitis occur in the entire United States each year?

2. Where was the television station where Christine Drury was the overnight anchorwoman?

3. How old was Gawande's daughter Hattie when she broke the bones in her forearm?

4. What was Victor Caselli's occupation?

5. When was one of the earliest forensic examinations performed?

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