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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?

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

4. How old was the pathology assistant who did the dissection for the autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut"?

5. When did Gawande attend medical school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What types of situations made Drury blush?

3. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

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

5. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether or not medicine can or should be automated as much as possible. Use examples from Complications.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the mysteries and unknowns of medicine and the struggles of what to do with them. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why autopsy can be used as a tool in medicine.

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