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1. How does Gawande characterize the corpse he was given to work with, his first semester of medical school?
(a) Tough.
(b) Juicy.
(c) Leathery.
(d) Stringy.

2. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?
(a) Mikhail Lermontov.
(b) Ivan Turgenev.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. What does Ivan Ilych die of?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) An unnamed disease.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?
(a) The indifference his family felt.
(b) The impotence of his doctors.
(c) The lie that he was not really dying.
(d) The story that he would just get better.

5. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?
(a) To be celebrated.
(b) To be pitied.
(c) To be remembered.
(d) To be lionized.

6. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?
(a) Surgical residency.
(b) During a sabbatical.
(c) In college.
(d) First year of medical school.

7. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?
(a) Manage his condition.
(b) Provide an easy death.
(c) Demonstrate heroism in trying to save his life.
(d) Cure him.

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