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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?
(a) 68.
(b) 78.
(c) 56.
(d) 61.

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 11.
(b) 19.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

3. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 21.
(b) 90.
(c) 7.
(d) 150.

4. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 47.
(b) 64.
(c) 78.
(d) 39.

5. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?
(a) Begins to stagger.
(b) Increases.
(c) Remains stagnant.
(d) Decreases.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

4. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

5. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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