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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The septum.
(b) The stigma.
(c) The embolus.
(d) The neoplasm.

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

3. How old was Katie Mason when she died?
(a) 17.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

4. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Physically treatable.”
(b) “Officially treatable.”
(c) “Technically treatable.”
(d) “Eminently treatable.”

5. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?
(a) Over 20.
(b) Over 30.
(c) Over 40.
(d) Over 50.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother eventually die from?

3. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

4. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the progression of Alzheimer’s in Chapter 5?

2. What is related of Irv Lipsiner in Chapter 1? What was Lipsiner’s medical history?

3. When did the author encounter James McCarty? How is McCarty depicted in Chapter 1?

4. What does the author write of the “mystery” and “myth” of death in the Introduction?

5. What medical advances does the author cite in the study of myocardial infarction in Chapter 2?

6. Who is Horace Giddens and how is he described by the author?

7. What is a pathophysiologist? How does this relate to etymology, according to the author in Chapter 5?

8. How are heart problems and heart disease diagnosed and predicted, according to the author in Chapter 2?

9. What seven primary causes of death does the author cite for elderly patients in Chapter 4?

10. How does the author describe the degeneration of his grandmother in Chapter 3?

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