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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?
(a) 43.
(b) 35.
(c) 29.
(d) 56.

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 19.
(d) 3.

3. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Utica, New York.
(b) Augusta, Maine.
(c) Hamden, Connecticut.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

4. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?
(a) The Shriner's Hospital.
(b) St. Joseph’s Hospital.
(c) St. Paul's Hospital.
(d) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.

5. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) “A Strangled Heart.”
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?

2. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?

4. What was the profession of James McCarty?

5. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?

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