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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 3 of the book?
(a) “Three Score and Ten.”
(b) “Murder and Serenity.”
(c) “A Strangled Heart.”
(d) “Lessons Learned.”

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

3. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Atria.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Plasmid.

4. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Augusta, Maine.
(b) Utica, New York.
(c) Providence, Rhode Island.
(d) Hamden, Connecticut.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

2. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?

3. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?

4. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?

5. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

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