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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?
(a) Alzheimer’s disease.
(b) Ischemic heart disease.
(c) Corollary heart disease.
(d) Hodgkinson’s disease.

2. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1935.

3. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

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

5. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Lack of breathing.
(b) Lack of blinking.
(c) Loss of body heat.
(d) Loss of brain function.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

2. What is the title of Chapter 1?

3. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?

4. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?

(see the answer key)

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