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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Jewel Douglas ask Gawande to help her get to?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A holiday.
(c) A graduation.
(d) A trip with family.

2. What does Gawande say doctors have to do as people get closer to death?
(a) Weigh the cost effectiveness of each treatment.
(b) Resist the urge to toy with their health.
(c) Find the most drastic cures and treatments.
(d) Consider the effect of treatment on their family units.

3. How many parakeets did Bill Thomas introduce to Chase Memorial?
(a) 2.
(b) 60.
(c) 25.
(d) 100.

4. How does Gawande characterize the onset of treatment for his father’s tumor?
(a) As an opportunity to practice what he had learned to preach.
(b) As a tragedy that struck too early.
(c) As a punishment for not having taken better care of his father.
(d) As a test for what he had learned about mortality.

5. What was Thomas’ explanation for the decline in the death rate?
(a) Laughter at the animals was therapeutic.
(b) Sicker patients avoided the facility.
(c) He had given people a reason to live.
(d) The animals gave people stronger antibodies.

6. What did Gawande see stacked along the river bank when he and his guide set out to dispose of his father’s ashes?
(a) Wood.
(b) Bolts of fabric.
(c) Mourners.
(d) Bodies.

7. What does Kahneman say are our two selves?
(a) Experiencing and remembering.
(b) Grieving and longing.
(c) Planning and executing.
(d) Desiring and regretting.

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

9. By what factor was the doctors’ average overestimation of people’s survival time inaccurate?
(a) 250%.
(b) 530%.
(c) 1,700%.
(d) 420%.

10. How often does Gawande say he thought about elderly patients before the issue of geriatrics became an interest for him?
(a) He had watched his father practice in geriatrics.
(b) He never thought about them.
(c) He had done his residency in a geriatrics unit.
(d) He was always passingly interested in geriatrics.

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

12. What does Gawande say he connected himself and his father to, by scattering the ashes in the Ganges?
(a) Something larger than themselves.
(b) Father Time.
(c) Mother Earth.
(d) Their ethnic people.

13. Who did Gawande’s father want to see in his final bout of wakefulness?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) Gawande’s sons.
(d) Gawande.

14. What does Gawande say has provided him with the most meaningful experiences as a doctor?
(a) Helping patients deal with questions of ethics and the good life.
(b) Helping patients deal with what medicine cannot do.
(c) Helping patients deal with questions of philosophy and the spirit.
(d) Helping patients deal with limitations imposed by of mortality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gawande say is the “third type of doctor-patient relationship” (201)?

2. What was Thomas’ first project when he arrived at Chase?

3. What was the effect of Thomas’ first project?

4. What percent of Americans does Gawande say died in hospice in America in 2010?

5. What does Royce say is the problem with desires as a guide for life?

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