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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

2. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?
(a) Hypertension.
(b) Cellular aging.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Metastasis.

3. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Yale College.

4. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?
(a) 35.
(b) 29.
(c) 43.
(d) 56.

5. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?
(a) 80-120.
(b) 425-500.
(c) 250-350.
(d) 650-750.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?

2. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?

3. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

4. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

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

(see the answer key)

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