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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?
(a) Arsmoriendi.
(b) Manibus date liliaplenis.
(c) Sub divo.
(d) Facfortiaetpatere.

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

4. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?
(a) The New York Medical Review.
(b) The East Coast Journal of Medicine.
(c) The Journal of Atlantic Medicine.
(d) Connecticut Medicine.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?
(a) “Ask the tough questions.”
(b) “Investigate.”
(c) “Say so.”
(d) “Speculate.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?

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

4. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

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

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