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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?
(a) Plasmid.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Hemoglobin.

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

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?
(a) Subject to mutation.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Finite.
(d) Not subject to mutation.

4. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?
(a) 78.
(b) 68.
(c) 56.
(d) 61.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 6?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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