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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 250.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 65.
(d) 820.

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

3. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 21.
(b) 90.
(c) 150.
(d) 7.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?

4. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?

5. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?

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