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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(b) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(c) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(d) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”

2. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 43.
(b) 18.
(c) 52.
(d) 35.

3. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?
(a) “Three Score and Ten.”
(b) “Lessons Learned.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

4. Who first identified and named Alzheimer’s disease?
(a) Suzanne Alzheimer.
(b) Rebecca Alzheimer.
(c) Alois Alzheimer.
(d) Laura Alzheimer.

5. Incidents of tuberculosis in AIDS patients are said to be how many times greater than non-AIDS related cases?
(a) 500.
(b) 140.
(c) 360.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 10?

2. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

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

4. How old was Robert DeMatteis, as described in Chapter 11?

5. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?

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