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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 Gawande's daughter Hattie when she broke the bones in her forearm?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. What percent of people who have necrotizing fasciitis die?
(a) 45 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

3. How many cases of cellulitis occur in the entire United States each year?
(a) About 750,000.
(b) About 2 million.
(c) About 550,000.
(d) Over 3 million.

4. How many pregnant woman who are employed miss work because of morning sickness?
(a) Two thirds.
(b) Half.
(c) One third.
(d) One fourth.

5. During what week in Fitzpatrick's pregnancy was she able to eat an odd selection of four things in sliver-size portions?
(a) 29th week.
(b) 35th week.
(c) 30th week.
(d) 23rd week.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?

3. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?

4. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?

2. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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

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

7. What are some ways that people have gotten necrotizing fasciitis?

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

9. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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