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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. How does Gawande characterize both Lazaroff and the doctors?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Delusional.

2. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?
(a) A series of minor decreases in a slow decline toward death.
(b) A series of dips followed by recoveries that approach the horizontal axis of death.
(c) A high line that ends abruptly.
(d) A high line that runs flat then falls quickly.

3. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors never touched on, in talking about Lazaroff’s condition with him?
(a) The side effects to chemotherapy.
(b) The reality of his disease.
(c) The cost of the treatment.
(d) The likelihood the treatment would fail.

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

5. How does Gawande characterize the change over time in blood vessels, joints and the valves of the heart?
(a) Thinning.
(b) Softening.
(c) Stiffening.
(d) Weakening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say he and his fellow doctors hoped to do for Joseph Lazaroff?

2. What does Gawande say Montaigne said about dying of old age?

3. How did Gawande’s grandfather and his wife avoid starving to death as newlyweds?

4. When does Gawande say he started to write about medical issues?

5. What does Gawande say is the first part of the brain to shrink with aging?

(see the answer key)

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