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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gawande characterize Felix’ feelings when his wife dies?
(a) Discombobulated.
(b) Disoriented.
(c) Distraught.
(d) Dismembered.

2. Which finger does Gawande say has 40% of the hand’s muscles?
(a) The thumb.
(b) The pinky finger.
(c) The pointer finger.
(d) The middle finger.

3. What event does Gawande say sparked a national revolution in elder care?
(a) World War I.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) The Baby Boom.

4. By what factor does Gawande say the cost of living in a nursing home exceeds the cost of living in an assisted living facility?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. What does Lou Sanders’ daughter Shelley compare him to when he comes to live with her and her family?
(a) A kid getting on the bus.
(b) A restless dog that cannot settle.
(c) A nervous girl making new friends.
(d) A cornered old turtle.

6. What does Gawande say is the thing that strikes him most about Lazaroff’s case?
(a) His doctors knew he could not be cured.
(b) His determination to live was otherworldly.
(c) His chance of survival was so thin.
(d) His determination to live was otherworldly.

7. What kind of system does Gawande compare human bodies to?
(a) Nuclear power plants.
(b) Kitchen appliances.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Wind-up toys.

8. What does Gawande say drives youth to seek their own opportunities as opposed to caring for their elders?
(a) Political conflict.
(b) Famine.
(c) Emigration.
(d) Prosperity.

9. How does Gawande characterize the new developments in medicine, in talking about the case of Lazaroff?
(a) Blind groping
(b) Gambling.
(c) Torture.
(d) Cruelty.

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

11. When does Gawande say people started to go to doctors, instead of doctors coming to them?
(a) After World War I.
(b) After the 1970s.
(c) During the Depression.
(d) After World War II.

12. Who does Keren Wilson say assisted living facilities are ultimately built for?
(a) Elderly people.
(b) Administrators.
(c) Older people’s children.
(d) Investors.

13. What arrangement did Felix have to make when he brought Bella back home from the nursing home?
(a) He had to have contractors make modifications of their home.
(b) He had to return to practicing medicine to pay for her care.
(c) He hired an army of nurses and aides.
(d) He invited his daughters to live at home to help him.

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

15. How does Gawande say Alice’s family dealt with her depression?
(a) They found her a better situation.
(b) They brought her a cat and house plants.
(c) They put her on depression medication.
(d) They enrolled her in classes at the local university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say Lou Sanders was scared of?

2. What was the default option for poor elderly people in the time of Mabel’s study?

3. What does Gawande say is the biggest difference between how people age today and how they used to age?

4. In what way is Lou Sanders’ decision to move in with his daughter not successful?

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

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