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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 third of the three main stages of HIV?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Clinical Latency.
(c) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Acute infection.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Asphyxia.
(d) Dementia.

3. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Neoplasm.
(d) Embolus.

4. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) Chronic insanity.
(b) Virtual insanity.
(c) Moral insanity.
(d) Colonic insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?

2. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

4. Where was William Osler born?

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

(see the answer key)

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