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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Finite.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Agonal.

2. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 41.
(b) 49.
(c) 92.
(d) 58.

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

4. What does TIA stand for?
(a) Total ischemic attack.
(b) Transient ischemic attack.
(c) Tubercular incendiary attack.
(d) Transient irregular achievement.

5. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Mamaw.”
(b) “Granny.”
(c) “Bubbeh.”
(d) “Nana.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

2. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

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

4. 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?

5. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?

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