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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The neoplasm.
(b) The embolus.
(c) The septum.
(d) The stigma.

2. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?
(a) “A myth.”
(b) “A treasure.”
(c) “A wish.”
(d) “A lottery.”

3. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 18.
(b) 52.
(c) 35.
(d) 43.

4. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Loss of brain function.
(b) Lack of breathing.
(c) Lack of blinking.
(d) Loss of body heat.

5. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) William Caxton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?

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

3. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

4. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

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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