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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) 10 p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) Midnight.

2. How many studies did Gawande find when doing a computer search to attempt to identify "circalunidian" cycles?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 100.
(d) 75.

3. What did Turk Wendell insist that his salary be for the 1999 season?
(a) $2,100,000.99.
(b) $750,000.99.
(c) $500,000.99.
(d) $1,200,000.99.

4. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?
(a) Britain.
(b) Canada.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Australia.

5. How many times had the surgeons conference been held?
(a) 79 times.
(b) 93 times.
(c) 108 times.
(d) 86 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?

2. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?

3. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

4. Who was the gynecologist from Ohio who subjected hundreds of women when they had been anesthetized for other procedures to bizarre disfiguring procedures that he called the Surgery of Love?

5. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

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