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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 son Walker when Hattie broke her forearm?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. What month was it when Gawande saw a patient with a red and swollen leg?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) June.

3. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?
(a) Australia.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) Britain.

4. How old was the first patient for whom Gawande was expected to request an autopsy?
(a) 75.
(b) 69.
(c) 81.
(d) 71.

5. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?
(a) 1 to 7 percent.
(b) 5 to 10 percent.
(c) About 8 percent.
(d) About 2 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?

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

3. What were Christine Drury's hours when she was an overnight television anchorwoman?

4. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?

5. How many pounds does Caselli estimate he had lost and gained in his life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

5. What does Gawande say was the relationship between doctor and patient over a decade ago?

6. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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

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

10. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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