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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(d) Adam Hammer, M.D.

2. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?
(a) Metastasis.
(b) Cellular aging.
(c) Hypertension.
(d) Exsanguination.

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

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

5. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) Strokes.
(b) Cellular aging.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Acute infection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?

2. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?

3. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?

4. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

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

(see the answer key)

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