How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Sherwin B. Nuland
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Sherwin B. Nuland
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Decreased resistance to infection.
(b) Transient ischemic attack.
(c) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(d) Hypertention.

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?
(a) In overdrive.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) No longer functioning.
(d) At its limit.

4. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?
(a) 56.
(b) 68.
(c) 78.
(d) 61.

5. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Atria.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Embolus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

2. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?

4. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?

5. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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