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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Percival Pott born?
(a) 1714.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1653.

2. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Plato.
(b) Herodotus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hippocrates.

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

4. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) James Cowles Prichard.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) Dr. Kennith Ring.
(d) William Caxton.

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?
(a) Die.
(b) Become infected.
(c) Reproduce.
(d) Fight disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?

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

3. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

4. What is the protagonist’s profession in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

5. The medical etymology of the term cancer can be traced back to the days of whom, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 10?

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