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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 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?
(a) William Feller.
(b) Brandon Wyatt.
(c) Wagner Westford.
(d) Lance Bridger.

2. What worked at first to ease Quinlan's pain?
(a) Epidural injections.
(b) Demerol.
(c) Vicodin.
(d) OxyContin.

3. What would Wade Boggs, the Boton Red Sox's former star third baseman, always eat before a game?
(a) A T-bone.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Pork.
(d) A large salad.

4. Who wrote that "man is the only animal that blushes or needs to"?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Winston Churchill.

5. How old was Drury when she got the job as overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 31.
(b) 28.
(c) 26.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?

2. What was the average amount of time that a keyboard operator in Australia would lose from work due to disabling arm pain?

3. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?

4. How much did the recovery room nurse at Gawande's hospital weigh at one time?

5. How many hospital patients suffered complications from treatment that prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death according to a Harvard Medical Practice Study in 1991?

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