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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 — Hard Conversations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?
(a) 24%.
(b) 64%.
(c) 32%.
(d) 45%.

2. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?
(a) Mr. Information.
(b) The Interpretive Doctor.
(c) The Companion.
(d) The Expert.

3. What does Gawande say your chances of avoiding a nursing home depend on?
(a) How many children you have.
(b) How much money you have.
(c) Having a younger spouse.
(d) Having sons.

4. How does Gawande characterize the phase of cultural development we are in, with regard to care for the sick and dying?
(a) More institutional.
(b) More spiritualized.
(c) More medicalized.
(d) Transitional.

5. What does Gawande say his father’s chance of being paralyzed by surgery were?
(a) 1 in 20.
(b) 1 in 10.
(c) 1 in 6
(d) 1 in 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the people who died in hospice care in the U.S. in 2010, what percent does Gawande say died at home?

2. What kind of system does Gawande compare human bodies to?

3. Why does Gawande say he and his father preferred Doctor Benzel to the neurosurgeon at Gawande’s hospital?

4. What does Lou Sanders’ daughter Shelley compare him to when he comes to live with her and her family?

5. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?

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