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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Utica, New York.
(b) Providence, Rhode Island.
(c) Hamden, Connecticut.
(d) Augusta, Maine.

2. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Embolus.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Atria.

3. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) “A Strangled Heart.”
(b) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(c) “Three Score and Ten.”
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."

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. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?
(a) Stockbroker.
(b) Salesman.
(c) Fireman.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Robert DeMatteis, as described in Chapter 11?

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

3. How tall was Robert DeMatteis?

4. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

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

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