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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 percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness?
(a) 80 to 90 percent.
(b) 10 to 20 percent.
(c) 60 to 85 percent.
(d) 40 to 50 percent.

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

3. How much did the recovery room nurse at Gawande's hospital weigh at one time?
(a) About 300 pounds.
(b) About 350 pounds.
(c) Around 400 pounds.
(d) Over 250 pounds.

4. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?
(a) 31.
(b) 21.
(c) 35.
(d) 25.

5. How many hours each time did Bratton spend in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber?
(a) 1 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color cast did Gawande's daughter Hattie get when she broke her forearm?

3. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?

4. Since 1998, how many operations have been performed to stop severe blushing?

5. How many children did Marie Noe have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the surgery involve that Drury had in order to stop blushing?

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

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

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

9. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

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

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