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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 — Hard Conversations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diagnosis did Lou Sanders get after he had a fall at age 88?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Alzheimer’s.
(d) Parkinson’s.

2. What does Gawande say Josiah Royce described as the heart of a meaningful life?
(a) Comfort and predictability.
(b) Self-actualization.
(c) Community and history.
(d) Loyalty to a higher cause.

3. What was Sara Monopoli’s strategy for making treatment decisions?
(a) Most tolerable treatment.
(b) Minimal invasiveness.
(c) Maximum quality of life.
(d) Aggressive management.

4. When did Keren Wilson open her first assisted living facility?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1976.

5. How does Gawande characterize the phase of cultural development we are in, with regard to care for the sick and dying?
(a) Transitional.
(b) More institutional.
(c) More spiritualized.
(d) More medicalized.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gawande characterize the people who spend the last days of their life in the ICU?

3. What is Gawande’s relation to Alice Hobson?

4. By what factor was the doctors’ average overestimation of people’s survival time inaccurate?

5. Which of Gawande’s patients showed him “how understanding the finitude of one’s time could be a gift” (209)?

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