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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) 2 in 150 chance.
(b) 1 in 200 chance.
(c) 3 in 700 chance.
(d) 1 in 500 chance.

4. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997.

5. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?
(a) About 2 percent.
(b) 1 to 7 percent.
(c) 5 to 10 percent.
(d) About 8 percent.

6. What disease had the woman whose autopsy Gwande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut" struggled with?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) MS.
(c) Parkinson's Disease.
(d) Diabetes.

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

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

9. Where did Drury go to college?
(a) Purdue University.
(b) University of Southern Indiana.
(c) University of Evansville.
(d) Indiana State University.

10. Who wrote "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient"?
(a) Jay Katz.
(b) Andrew Meisner.
(c) Joseph Kauffman.
(d) Susan Whitman.

11. How long had Gawande's daughter Hunter been home before she became ill?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 8 days.
(d) A week.

12. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1993.

13. For how many years have doctors been performing autopsies?
(a) 600.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,700.

14. How many hours each time did Bratton spend in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 1 hours.

15. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?
(a) 10,000 more patients.
(b) Double the number of patients.
(c) 5,000 more patients.
(d) Three times the number of patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harvard psychologist William James observe that certain deaf people were immune to seasickness?

2. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?

3. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?

4. What was the first indication Joseph Lazaroff had that something might be physically wrong with him?

5. What were Christine Drury's hours when she was an overnight television anchorwoman?

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