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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?
(a) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(d) William Caxton.

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Mamaw.”
(b) “Bubbeh.”
(c) “Nana.”
(d) “Granny.”

3. According to the author in Chapter 10, contemporary medicine is responsible for the five-year remission rate of childhood leukemia now being nearly what percent?
(a) 30%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 75%.

4. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?
(a) 44.
(b) 54.
(c) 51.
(d) 20.

5. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(b) “Lessons Learned.”
(c) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?

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

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

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?

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