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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) “A Strangled Heart.”
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."

2. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?
(a) Begins to stagger.
(b) Remains stagnant.
(c) Decreases.
(d) Increases.

3. What is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Hypertension.
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(c) Decreased resistance to infection.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

4. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1912.

5. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

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

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

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

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

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