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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Tap his feet rapidly.
(b) Sweat and cry.
(c) Convulse and shout.
(d) Scratch his arms intensely.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Asphyxia.
(b) Exsanguination.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Metastasis.

3. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?
(a) Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers.
(b) Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital.
(c) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
(d) The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher.

4. William Osler was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at what institution?
(a) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(b) Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(c) St. Mark's Hospital.
(d) St. Joseph's Hospital.

5. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?
(a) Atria.
(b) Agonal.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Plasmid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Katie Mason die, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. In what year did Harold Bliss die?

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

5. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?

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