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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) “Lessons Learned.”
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

2. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(b) James Cowles Prichard.
(c) John Webster.
(d) John Seidman.

3. When was The Kingdom of God Is Within You published?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1894.

4. When was Lewis Thomas born?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1927.

5. What word from the Epilogue means caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Traumalogical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Pathological.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 5, as the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's increase, eventually the awareness of one's surrounding will be lost, as will what?

2. What are the most common neurological problems associated with HIV?

3. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?

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

5. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?

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