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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the typical requirement for a patient to enter hospice care?
(a) Chronic pain.
(b) A terminal diagnosis.
(c) Running out of private funding for a nursing home.
(d) A life expectancy under six months.

2. What argument does Gawande give for allowing people to die with prescription drugs?
(a) It is merciful to end someone’s suffering.
(b) People know their desires better than their doctors.
(c) People have the right to stop treatment, so they should have the right to end their lives.
(d) No laws, even the prohibition of murder, are absolute.

3. What factor correlated with the greatest inaccuracies when doctors estimated their patients’ survival times?
(a) The more the patient was suffering, , the more inaccurate they were.
(b) The better they knew the patients, the more inaccurate they were.
(c) The longer the patient had been under treatment, the more inaccurate they were.
(d) The less they knew the patients, the more inaccurate they were.

4. What other pets did Chase Memorial also eventually adopt?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Horses.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Rabbits.

5. What does Gawande say life expectancy was in the Roman Empire?
(a) 28.
(b) 48.
(c) 56.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many spoonfuls of Ganges water did Gawande drink, as part of his father’s funeral service?

2. Why does Dave Galloway say he does not want to take his pain medication when his cancer is troubling him?

3. What does Gawande say he felt about the dead people who showed up in his dreams?

4. By what margin does Gawande say costs came down in Keren Wilson’s assisted living facility?

5. How did Alice Hobson lose her car?

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