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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1984.

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

4. Where was the television station where Christine Drury was the overnight anchorwoman?
(a) Bloomington.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Fort Wayne.
(d) Indianapolis.

5. How long had Caselli been married?
(a) 41 years.
(b) 18 years.
(c) 35 years.
(d) 25 years.

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

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

8. When did Harvard psychologist William James observe that certain deaf people were immune to seasickness?
(a) 1715.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1843.

9. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 8 weeks.
(b) 12 weeks.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

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

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

12. How much did Caselli weigh before the surgery?
(a) 471 pounds.
(b) 398 pounds.
(c) 512 pounds.
(d) 428 pounds.

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

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

15. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?
(a) Johnny Carson.
(b) Steve Allen.
(c) David Letterman.
(d) Jay Leno.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?

3. How old was the first patient for whom Gawande was expected to request an autopsy?

4. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?

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

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