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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) “A Strangled Heart.”
(b) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(c) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?
(a) A toned athlete.
(b) A decrepit old man.
(c) An overweight workaholic.
(d) A middle-aged working man.

3. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) A pain in his right knee.
(b) Loss of vision.
(c) Loss of hearing.
(d) Pressure in his chest and left side.

4. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?
(a) His sixth year.
(b) His third year.
(c) His first year.
(d) His seventh year.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

4. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

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