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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Drury when she got the job as overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 28.
(b) 24.
(c) 31.
(d) 26.

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

4. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Wharton.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How many cases of cellulitis occur in the entire United States each year?
(a) About 750,000.
(b) About 2 million.
(c) Over 3 million.
(d) About 550,000.

14. What was Noe's husband's name?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Robert.
(d) Arthur.

15. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?
(a) 1 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?

2. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?

3. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?

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

5. During an all-night interview, how many children did Noe confess she had suffocated?

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