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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. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brown.
(d) Wharton.

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

3. What were Christine Drury's hours when she was an overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.
(b) 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
(c) Midnight to 8 a.m.
(d) 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?

3. What time did the retired New England doctor pass away?

4. When was a manuscript written that described putting delinquent juveniles inside a box outside town hall that would be spun at high speed until the youth vomited?

5. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

3. What does it mean that "there is an art to being a patient"?

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

5. What types of situations made Drury blush?

6. Why couldn't Caselli be anesthetized lying down?

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

8. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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