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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does TIA stand for?
(a) Transient irregular achievement.
(b) Total ischemic attack.
(c) Tubercular incendiary attack.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

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

3. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Looking after America’s Health.”
(b) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(c) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”
(d) “Looking after the sick and injured.”

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?

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”?

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