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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During an all-night interview, how many children did Noe confess she had suffocated?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

2. In court, how many children did Noe say that she had killed?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

3. What color cast did Gawande's daughter Hattie get when she broke her forearm?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

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

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

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

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

8. When were Fitzpatrick's twins born?
(a) 35th week.
(b) 40th week.
(c) 33rd week.
(d) 37th week.

9. How much weight did Lazaroff lose in a few months?
(a) Over 75 pounds.
(b) About 30 pounds.
(c) Over 50 pounds.
(d) About 20 pounds.

10. What time did the retired New England doctor pass away?
(a) 5:30 a.m.
(b) 2:45 a.m.
(c) 12:30 a.m.
(d) 1:45 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many of Noe's children died?

4. In what book was a man programmed away from brutality by coupling his violent urges with feelings of nausea?

5. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

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