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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. In court, how many children did Noe say that she had killed?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

2. How long had Gawande's daughter Hunter been home before she became ill?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) A week.

3. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1993.

4. How long had Caselli been married?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 41 years.
(c) 35 years.
(d) 18 years.

5. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?
(a) Bridgeport.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of people who have necrotizing fasciitis die?

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

3. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?

4. 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?

5. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

5. What two options did Lazaroff have to deal with the metastasis that was compressing his thoracic spinal cord?

6. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

7. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

8. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

9. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?

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

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