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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(b) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) Dmitri Ivanovsky.

4. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Optometry.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Etymology.

5. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 250.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 820.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?

3. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

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

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