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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

2. Who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Mankind?
(a) Charles Kingsley.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) Harvey Nuland.

3. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 90.
(b) 7.
(c) 21.
(d) 150.

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

5. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) Colonic insanity.
(b) Chronic insanity.
(c) Moral insanity.
(d) Virtual insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 1?

2. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?

3. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

4. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?

5. Who first identified and named Alzheimer’s disease?

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