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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) A pain in his right knee.
(b) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(c) Loss of hearing.
(d) Loss of vision.

2. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Herodotus.

3. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Asphyxia.

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

5. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Physically treatable.”
(b) “Technically treatable.”
(c) “Eminently treatable.”
(d) “Officially treatable.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?

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

5. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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