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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

2. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Yale College.
(d) Harvard University.

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

4. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) Charles Kingsley.
(d) Dr. Kenneth Ring.

5. 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”?
(a) William Caxton.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

5. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?

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