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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. Since 1998, how many operations have been performed to stop severe blushing?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 500.

2. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) 1 in 500 chance.
(b) 2 in 150 chance.
(c) 3 in 700 chance.
(d) 1 in 200 chance.

3. How old was Gawande's son Walker when Hattie broke her forearm?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

5. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

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

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

4. How long had Gawande's daughter Hunter been home before she became ill?

5. How much did Caselli weigh before the surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do studies show about the chances of obese adults and obese children to lose weight and keep it off?

2. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

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

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

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

6. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

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

8. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?

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

10. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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