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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 52,000.
(d) 32,000.

2. How long did it take Lazaroff to die after being removed from the ventilator?
(a) 17 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 23 minutes.
(d) 13 minutes.

3. What was Victor Caselli's occupation?
(a) Semi-truck driver.
(b) Assembly-line worker.
(c) Sanitation engineer.
(d) Heavy-machine operator and road construction contractor.

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

5. Approximately how many cases of necrotizing fasciitis occur in the entire United States each year?
(a) Around 2,000 case.
(b) About 1,500 cases.
(c) About a thousand cases.
(d) 600 cases.

6. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her brother.

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

8. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?
(a) His hand.
(b) His ear.
(c) His leg.
(d) His arm.

9. What month was it when Gawande saw a patient with a red and swollen leg?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) June.

10. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?
(a) 101 degrees.
(b) 103 degrees.
(c) 102 degrees.
(d) 104 degrees.

11. How old was Gawande's daughter Hattie when she broke the bones in her forearm?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

12. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Bridgeport.
(d) Brooklyn.

13. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 4 weeks.

14. During what week in Fitzpatrick's pregnancy was she able to eat an odd selection of four things in sliver-size portions?
(a) 35th week.
(b) 30th week.
(c) 23rd week.
(d) 29th week.

15. How old was Victor Caselli?
(a) 54.
(b) 61.
(c) 37.
(d) 43.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Eleanor Bratton when she had a red and swollen leg?

2. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?

3. What was Noe's husband's name?

4. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?

5. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?

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