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

2. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1997.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?

2. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?

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

4. Who wrote that "man is the only animal that blushes or needs to"?

5. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

2. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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

6. What is a core predicament in medicine?

7. What two options did Lazaroff have to deal with the metastasis that was compressing his thoracic spinal cord?

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

9. Describe the dissecting room and location where Gawande observed an autopsy.

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

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