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

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

3. 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 backache.
(c) A wound that would not heal.
(d) Terrible headaches.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?

2. By what age do most of the SIDS deaths occur?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

3. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

4. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

5. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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

7. Describe the dissecting room and location where Gawande observed an autopsy.

8. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

10. What did the surgery involve that Drury had in order to stop blushing?

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