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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove colon cancer.
(b) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(c) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.
(d) Surgery to remove an appendix.

2. Where was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) Highway 17.
(b) Interstate 81.
(c) New York City's F.D.R. Drive.
(d) Interstate 88.

3. During what year of his training does Gawande have a chance to attend a surgeons convention?
(a) 7th year.
(b) 8th year.
(c) 6th year.
(d) 5th year.

4. Where did Drury go to college?
(a) Purdue University.
(b) Indiana State University.
(c) University of Evansville.
(d) University of Southern Indiana.

5. How old was the patient who needed a central line?
(a) In his thirties.
(b) In his sixties.
(c) In his forties.
(d) Fiftyish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?

2. How much might it cost in most hospitals to repair a hernia?

3. What percent of Americans does a 1995 poll show believe that the moon alters individual behavior?

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

5. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?

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