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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. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1997.

2. Where did Drury go to college?
(a) Indiana State University.
(b) University of Evansville.
(c) Purdue University.
(d) University of Southern Indiana.

3. How old was Mr. Jolly when he died?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his fifties.
(c) In his eighties.
(d) In his nineties.

4. By what age do most of the SIDS deaths occur?
(a) By 9 months of age.
(b) By 6 months of age.
(c) By 1 year old.
(d) By 3 months of age.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Harvard psychologist William James observe that certain deaf people were immune to seasickness?

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

3. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gawande and others suspect abuse when they saw a two-month-old boy whose face had been badly scalded?

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

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

5. What types of situations made Drury blush?

6. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

9. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

10. What was it like for Bratton to be in the hyperbaric chamber?

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