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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) William Caxton.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

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

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?
(a) Not subject to mutation.
(b) Subject to mutation.
(c) Infinite.
(d) Finite.

4. What was the name of Dr. Nuland’s brother?
(a) Harvey Nuland.
(b) Robert Nuland.
(c) Roger Nuland.
(d) Edmond Nuland.

5. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Obtundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?

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

3. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?

4. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?

5. When was Percival Pott born?

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