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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Gawande's daughter Hattie when she broke the bones in her forearm?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

3. In what book was a man programmed away from brutality by coupling his violent urges with feelings of nausea?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Clockwork Orange.
(c) The Criminal and Nausea.
(d) Love and Nausea.

4. How old was Eleanor Bratton when she had a red and swollen leg?
(a) 21.
(b) 18.
(c) 25.
(d) 23.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Drury when she got the job as overnight television anchorwoman?

2. At what time did the retired New England doctor's wife make it to the hospital once his illness was determined to be fatal?

3. How old was Victor Caselli?

4. What was the name of Lazaroff's son?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it like for Bratton to be in the hyperbaric chamber?

2. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?

3. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

4. What do studies show about the chances of obese adults and obese children to lose weight and keep it off?

5. How incapacitated did Amy Fitzgerald become during her pregnancy?

6. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?

7. Why did Gawande and others suspect abuse when they saw a two-month-old boy whose face had been badly scalded?

8. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

9. What is a core predicament in medicine?

10. What are some ways that people have gotten necrotizing fasciitis?

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