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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?
(a) 80-120.
(b) 650-750.
(c) 250-350.
(d) 425-500.

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

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

4. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

5. 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) Harvey Nuland.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Phil Whiting.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?

4. 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”?

5. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?

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