Being Mortal Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Atul Gawande
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 162 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Being Mortal Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Atul Gawande
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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 Ilych wanted?
(a) To be lionized.
(b) To be pitied.
(c) To be remembered.
(d) To be celebrated.

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

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

4. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(b) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(c) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(d) His chance of survival was so thin.

5. When did Gawande’s father become a U.S. citizen?
(a) Memorial Day, 1972.
(b) Christmas, 1982.
(c) Easter, 1986.
(d) July 4, 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize his grandfather Sitaram Gawande’s elder years?

2. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?

3. How does Gawande characterize his exposure to death and the dying as a child?

4. What does Ivan Ilych die of?

5. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?

(see the answer key)

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