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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 — Dependence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hospitals does Gawande say were built after Congress passed the Hill Burton Act, to provide funds for hospital construction?
(a) 850.
(b) 4,200.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 9,000.

2. How much of the population does Gawande say was over 65 in 2017?
(a) 22%.
(b) 14%.
(c) 29%.
(d) 31%.

3. What does Ivan Ilych die of?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) An unnamed disease.
(d) Cholera.

4. How does Gawande characterize the similarity between nursing homes and prisons?
(a) They are both state-run.
(b) They are both total institutions.
(c) They both house mostly poor people.
(d) They are both punitive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych?

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

3. What does Gawande say modernization replaced the veneration of family with?

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

5. When did Mabel Nassau conduct the study of elderly in Greenwich Village, that Gawande cites?

(see the answer key)

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