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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 65.
(c) 250.
(d) 820.

2. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Decreased resistance to infection.
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(c) Hypertention.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

3. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?
(a) “Murder and Serenity.”
(b) “Three Score and Ten.”
(c) “Lessons Learned.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

4. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Scratch his arms intensely.
(b) Sweat and cry.
(c) Tap his feet rapidly.
(d) Convulse and shout.

5. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?
(a) Ischemic heart disease.
(b) Corollary heart disease.
(c) Alzheimer’s disease.
(d) Hodgkinson’s disease.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?

4. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?

5. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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