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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 many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 8 weeks.

2. Who wrote "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient"?
(a) Joseph Kauffman.
(b) Jay Katz.
(c) Susan Whitman.
(d) Andrew Meisner.

3. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?
(a) Holland.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Norway.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Gawande attend medical school?

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

4. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

5. How long did it take Lazaroff to die after being removed from the ventilator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

8. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

9. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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