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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?
(a) Metastasis.
(b) Cardiogenic shock.
(c) Trauma.
(d) Dementia.

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?
(a) Shock.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Cellular aging.

4. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act in the United States, children under what age may not be employed?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

5. What word from Chapter 10 refers to the transference of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces?
(a) Metabolomics.
(b) Acute infection.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Obtundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

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. The protagonist of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby falls into a river after encountering what upper-class girl?

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?

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