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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 — Assistance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way is Lou Sanders’ decision to move in with his daughter not successful?
(a) His care is taxing for Shelley.
(b) His care costs more than his family can afford.
(c) He is depressed and lonely.
(d) He cannot make friends.

2. What system did the U.S. join Europe in implementing in 1935?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) Social Security.
(c) Medicaid.
(d) Medicare.

3. What does Gawande say is the first part of the brain to shrink with aging?
(a) Occipital lobe.
(b) Temporal lobe.
(c) Parietal lobe.
(d) Frontal lobe.

4. What does Gawande say the nursing homes Wilson looked at were designed for?
(a) Cost containment.
(b) Warehousing the elderly.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Control.

5. What view does Gawande ultimately take, on the question of why we age?
(a) Things are degraded.
(b) Things are not well cared for.
(c) Things shut down.
(d) Things break down.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Gawande say we do not have “the kind of old age” our grandfathers had (20)?

4. How does Gawande characterize the plot of a person’s health for most of history?

5. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?

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