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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 number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) Cellular aging.
(b) Acute infection.
(c) Strokes.
(d) AIDS.

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

3. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Trauma.
(d) Cardiogenic shock.

4. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?
(a) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(b) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(c) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

5. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?
(a) Fireman.
(b) Salesman.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Stockbroker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of James McCarty?

2. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?

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

4. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

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