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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Loss of hearing.
(b) A pain in his right knee.
(c) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(d) Loss of vision.
2. What is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Hypertension.
(b) Transient ischemic attack.
(c) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(d) Decreased resistance to infection.
3. Harold Bliss was the first documented case of death by what means?
(a) Radiation exposure.
(b) Automotive accident.
(c) Allergic reaction.
(d) Electrocution.
4. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?
(a) The seven doors to the afterlife.
(b) The Grim Reaper’s seven sons.
(c) The seven knives of doom.
(d) The seven horsemen of death.
5. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Finite.
(d) Pandemic.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?
2. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
3. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
4. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?
5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
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