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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(c) “Three Score and Ten.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

3. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?
(a) 425-500.
(b) 80-120.
(c) 650-750.
(d) 250-350.

4. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) William Caxton.

5. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?

2. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?

4. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

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