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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 life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
(a) 32.
(b) 48.
(c) 56.
(d) 28.

2. 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 chance of survival was so thin.
(d) His determination to live was otherworldly.

3. How does Gawande characterize the corpse he was given to work with, his first semester of medical school?
(a) Juicy.
(b) Tough.
(c) Stringy.
(d) Leathery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the greatest threat elderly people face?

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

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

4. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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

(see the answer key)

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