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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 — Things Fall Apart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
(a) Foods that cause cavities.
(b) Foods that lead to weight gain.
(c) Foods that cause ulcers.
(d) Foods that lack key nutrients.

2. How does Gawande characterize family expectations, in regard to caring for elders?
(a) Shackles.
(b) Duty.
(c) Sacred obligation.
(d) Business.

3. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?
(a) They used to die much earlier.
(b) They used to be cared for in multi-generational systems.
(c) They used to be much more private.
(d) They used to be much more independent.

4. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?
(a) She is his wife’s grandmother.
(b) She is his daughter’s piano teacher.
(c) She is his adopted grandmother.
(d) She is his old piano teacher.

5. What functions are affected by this first shrinking of the brain?
(a) Language.
(b) Abstract thinking.
(c) Planning.
(d) Judgment.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?

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

3. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?

4. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?

5. What does Gawande say tormented Ivan Ilych most?

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