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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Gawande's son Walker when Hattie broke her forearm?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

4. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2000.

5. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?
(a) 25.
(b) 35.
(c) 21.
(d) 31.

6. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?
(a) 101 degrees.
(b) 103 degrees.
(c) 102 degrees.
(d) 104 degrees.

7. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 1 hours.

8. When did Lazaroff's son tell the neurosurgeon that they should stop treating his father?
(a) 7 days after his spinal surgery.
(b) 2 days after his spinal surgery.
(c) 14 days after his spinal surgery.
(d) 3 weeks after his spinal sugery.

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

10. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Norway.
(d) Holland.

11. When did Harvard psychologist William James observe that certain deaf people were immune to seasickness?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1715.

12. During the gastric-bypass surgery, to what size was Caselli's stomach reduced to?
(a) 1 ounce.
(b) 2 ounces.
(c) 1 quart.
(d) 3 ounces.

13. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

14. What percent of people who have necrotizing fasciitis die?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 70 percent.

15. When did Gawande attend medical school?
(a) Late 1990s.
(b) Early 1980s.
(c) Late 1980s.
(d) Early 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease had the woman whose autopsy Gwande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut" struggled with?

2. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?

3. What were Christine Drury's hours when she was an overnight television anchorwoman?

4. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?

5. How many cases of cellulitis occur in the entire United States each year?

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