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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) John Webster.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Phil Whiting.

2. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Embolus.
(b) Atria.
(c) Ventricles.
(d) Plasmid.

3. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The neoplasm.
(b) The embolus.
(c) The septum.
(d) The stigma.

4. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?
(a) St. Joseph’s Hospital.
(b) St. Paul's Hospital.
(c) The Shriner's Hospital.
(d) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.

5. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Augusta, Maine.
(b) Utica, New York.
(c) Hamden, Connecticut.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

Short Answer 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?

2. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

3. Into how many main chambers is the human heart divided?

4. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?

5. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?

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