View a FREE sample

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 percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) About 35 percent.
(c) 5 to 20 percent.
(d) 1 to 10 percent.

2. How many patients a day did Goodman's physician's assistant say the man would see and not spend more than five minutes with them?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 35.

3. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?
(a) Zemmiphobia.
(b) Ballistophobia.
(c) Acrophobia.
(d) Paraskevidekatriaphobia.

4. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1990.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?

2. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?

3. When was a manuscript written that described putting delinquent juveniles inside a box outside town hall that would be spun at high speed until the youth vomited?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many weeks had Gawande been in training?

5. When installing a central line, how long is the wire that is inserted into the vein toward the vena cava ?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 190 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample