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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) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Harvey Nuland.

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

3. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 58.
(b) 92.
(c) 41.
(d) 49.

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) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(c) Charles Kingsley.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

5. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?
(a) Over 40.
(b) Over 50.
(c) Over 20.
(d) Over 30.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

3. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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

5. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?

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