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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?
(a) 56.
(b) 78.
(c) 61.
(d) 68.

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

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

5. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) A pain in his right knee.
(b) Loss of vision.
(c) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(d) Loss of hearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?

2. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?

3. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

4. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?

5. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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