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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?
(a) 56.
(b) 29.
(c) 35.
(d) 43.

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

3. What was the profession of James McCarty?
(a) An auto mechanic.
(b) A plumber.
(c) A construction executive.
(d) A real estate agent.

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) Phil Whiting.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) John Webster.

5. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?
(a) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Hippocrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 1?

4. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?

5. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?

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