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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?
(a) Lymphocyte.
(b) Bacteriophage.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Ventricles.

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

5. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?
(a) His third year.
(b) His first year.
(c) His sixth year.
(d) His seventh year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

2. How tall was Robert DeMatteis?

3. When were electrocardiograms invented?

4. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?

5. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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