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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time did the retired New England doctor's wife make it to the hospital once his illness was determined to be fatal?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) Midnight.
(c) 1:15 a.m.
(d) 2:15 a.m.

2. What was the first indication Joseph Lazaroff had that something might be physically wrong with him?
(a) A large lump under his arm.
(b) A wound that would not heal.
(c) A backache.
(d) Terrible headaches.

3. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1995.

4. How many of Noe's children died?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

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

6. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?
(a) Canada.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Australia.

7. How many months after Joseph Lazaroff began having problems was a scan ordered?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

9. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?
(a) His hand.
(b) His ear.
(c) His arm.
(d) His leg.

10. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Yonkers, New York.
(c) Baltimore, Maryland.
(d) Alexandria, Virginia.

11. What month was it when Gawande saw a patient with a red and swollen leg?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) April.
(d) May.

12. Since 1998, how many operations have been performed to stop severe blushing?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 500.

13. 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?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1843.

14. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?
(a) 3 week before.
(b) A few weeks before.
(c) 5 days before.
(d) 2 days before.

15. What percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness?
(a) 10 to 20 percent.
(b) 80 to 90 percent.
(c) 40 to 50 percent.
(d) 60 to 85 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?

2. How old was Gawande's daughter Hattie when she broke the bones in her forearm?

3. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?

4. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?

5. In court, how many children did Noe say that she had killed?

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