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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?
(a) No longer functioning.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) At its limit.
(d) In overdrive.

2. When was Percival Pott born?
(a) 1653.
(b) 1714.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1776.

3. How many children did Ishmael Garcia have?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

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

5. Who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Mankind?
(a) Phil Whiting.
(b) Harvey Nuland.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

3. Harold Bliss was how old when he died?

4. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?

5. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

(see the answer key)

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