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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 — Courage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?
(a) Choking.
(b) Falling.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Heart attacks.

2. What was the alternative Lazaroff was offered beside surgery?
(a) Doing nothing.
(b) Assisted suicide.
(c) Comfort care.
(d) Radiation.

3. What does Jewel Douglas want Gawande to avoid in his operation?
(a) Risky chances.
(b) Heroic measures.
(c) Painful moments.
(d) Long shots.

4. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
(a) Famine.
(b) Political conflict.
(c) Emigration.
(d) Prosperity.

5. By what factor was the doctors’ average overestimation of people’s survival time inaccurate?
(a) 1,700%.
(b) 530%.
(c) 420%.
(d) 250%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say led Keren Wilson to focus on assisted living facilities?

2. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?

3. What does Gawande say the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?

4. Where does Gawande say his father’s pains began?

5. How many of the 100 people Mabel Nassau studied were able to support themselves?

(see the answer key)

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