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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 patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) About 35 percent.
(c) 1 to 10 percent.
(d) 5 to 20 percent.

2. 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?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1914.

3. What was the first indication Joseph Lazaroff had that something might be physically wrong with him?
(a) Terrible headaches.
(b) A large lump under his arm.
(c) A wound that would not heal.
(d) A backache.

4. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her brother.

5. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) December 12, 1998.
(b) November 21, 1997.
(c) September 13, 1999.
(d) August 18, 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?

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

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

4. How long had Caselli been married?

5. When was Marie Noe giving birth to her children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

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

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

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

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

8. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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

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