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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?
(a) Sub divo.
(b) Arsmoriendi.
(c) Manibus date liliaplenis.
(d) Facfortiaetpatere.

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

3. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?
(a) “A myth.”
(b) “A treasure.”
(c) “A wish.”
(d) “A lottery.”

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

5. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) At his office.
(b) In his home.
(c) A tennis court.
(d) A hiking trail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 1?

2. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?

3. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

4. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

5. 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?

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