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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of Noe's children died?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who wrote that "man is the only animal that blushes or needs to"?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

9. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1998.

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

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

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

13. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?
(a) Norway.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Holland.

14. When did Gawande attend medical school?
(a) Late 1980s.
(b) Early 1990s.
(c) Late 1990s.
(d) Early 1980s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Caselli been married?

2. How old was Gawande's son Walker when Hattie broke her forearm?

3. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?

4. Over the course of four days, how many times did Bratton's leg need to be operated upon?

5. How many pregnant woman who are employed miss work because of morning sickness?

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