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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1869.

2. What was written in Robert DeMatteis’s epitaph, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) And it was always said of him that he would give you the shirt off his back.
(b) And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.
(c) And it was always said of him that he was the nicest man you could ever meet.
(d) And it was always said of him that he loved all children.

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

4. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Plato.
(b) Herodotus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hippocrates.

5. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) John Webster.
(b) James Cowles Prichard.
(c) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(d) John Seidman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?

2. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

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

4. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

5. Robert DeMatteis was desperately afraid of what, according to the author in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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