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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 — Letting Go.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say older people’s diets tend to be richer in?
(a) Foods that cause ulcers.
(b) Foods that lack key nutrients.
(c) Foods that cause cavities.
(d) Foods that lead to weight gain.

2. Where does Gawande say Lou Sanders had grown up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Boston.
(d) Cleveland.

3. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?
(a) She is his wife’s grandmother.
(b) She is his daughter’s piano teacher.
(c) She is his adopted grandmother.
(d) She is his old piano teacher.

4. What was Gawande’s father’s profession?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Executive.
(d) Urologist.

5. Where does Gawande say he witnessed the most hellish conditions of his life?
(a) An insane asylum in Belgium.
(b) A nursing home in the American South.
(c) A prison in Portugal.
(d) An elder home in India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gawande say we have not made a better system for caring for people near death?

2. When did Bill Thomas take over as director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?

3. How much of Medicare spending goes to the 5% of patients who are in their last year of life?

4. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?

5. What value did Thomas espouse in running his farm?

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