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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 — The Independent Self.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?
(a) Veneration of cultural traditions.
(b) Veneration of the independent self.
(c) Veneration of religious figures.
(d) Veneration of prosperity.

2. When does Gawande say he started to experience dead people?
(a) As a young child.
(b) In college.
(c) In visits to his father’s village.
(d) In medical school.

3. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?
(a) He had a period when a lot of his friends’ grandparents and relatives were sick or died in a cluster.
(b) He had almost no exposure.
(c) He was surrounded by rural poverty and high mortality.
(d) He had a grandfather living with him and saw his decline in detail.

4. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?
(a) That he was responsible for their souls.
(b) That they had come to kill him.
(c) That he had killed them.
(d) That he had betrayed them.

5. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?
(a) They speculated in land and their gamble paid off.
(b) They came to America and worked their way up.
(c) They harvested a bumper crop that paid their debts.
(d) They appealed to a wealth uncle who bailed them out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize the state of the medical profession in the face of scientific advances that prolonged life and made dying a medical decision?

2. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 1790?

3. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?

4. How old was Alice Hobson when she was widowed?

5. What does Gawande say Ilych wanted?

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