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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time did the retired New England doctor's wife make it to the hospital once his illness was determined to be fatal?
(a) 1:15 a.m.
(b) 2:15 a.m.
(c) 5:00 a.m.
(d) Midnight.

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

3. What network did Christine Drury work for when she was the overnight anchorwoman?
(a) ABC.
(b) CBS.
(c) NBC.
(d) CNN.

4. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) 1 to 10 percent.
(b) About 25 percent.
(c) 5 to 20 percent.
(d) About 35 percent.

5. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?
(a) 38.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

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

3. How old was Victor Caselli?

4. What month was it when Gawande saw a patient with a red and swollen leg?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the outcome when Noe was taken to court for the deaths of her children in 1998?

2. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

3. What does Gawande say was the relationship between doctor and patient over a decade ago?

4. What are the dangers of surgery for a morbidly obese person?

5. How incapacitated did Amy Fitzgerald become during her pregnancy?

6. Why in 1533 was the first documented postmortem examination in the New World performed?

7. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

8. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?

9. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

10. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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