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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Noe's husband when she plead to guilty to killing her children?
(a) 80.
(b) 78.
(c) 81.
(d) 77.

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

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

4. Where was the television station where Christine Drury was the overnight anchorwoman?
(a) Bloomington.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Fort Wayne.

5. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1995.

6. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) September 13, 1999.
(b) August 18, 1996.
(c) November 21, 1997.
(d) December 12, 1998.

7. How old was Mr. Jolly when he died?
(a) In his nineties.
(b) In his eighties.
(c) In his fifties.
(d) In his sixties.

8. How old was the woman whose autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of the "Final Cut"?
(a) 27.
(b) 38.
(c) 32.
(d) 41.

9. When was one of the earliest forensic examinations performed?
(a) 51 A.D.
(b) 61 B.C.
(c) 44 B.C.
(d) 44 A.D.

10. How old was Victor Caselli?
(a) 37.
(b) 61.
(c) 43.
(d) 54.

11. When was Marie Noe giving birth to her children?
(a) 1945 to 1960.
(b) 1970 to 2000.
(c) 1949 to 1968.
(d) 1950 to 1965.

12. What time did the retired New England doctor pass away?
(a) 5:30 a.m.
(b) 2:45 a.m.
(c) 1:45 a.m.
(d) 12:30 a.m.

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

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

15. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?
(a) 10,000 more patients.
(b) Three times the number of patients.
(c) Double the number of patients.
(d) 5,000 more patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take Lazaroff to die after being removed from the ventilator?

2. How much weight did Lazaroff lose in a few months?

3. Who wrote that "man is the only animal that blushes or needs to"?

4. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?

5. What was the first indication Joseph Lazaroff had that something might be physically wrong with him?

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