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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(b) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(c) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(d) Lillian Hellman.

2. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Technically treatable.”
(b) “Eminently treatable.”
(c) “Officially treatable.”
(d) “Physically treatable.”

3. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?
(a) Chronic heart disease.
(b) Exsanguination.
(c) Alzheimer’s Disease.
(d) AIDS.

4. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Harvey Nuland.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Phil Whiting.

5. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?
(a) A computer becoming obsolete.
(b) A decaying piece of fruit.
(c) A truck rusting in the field.
(d) The parts-replacement capability in a machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?

2. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?

3. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

4. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?

5. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?

(see the answer key)

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