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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 150.
(b) 7.
(c) 90.
(d) 21.

2. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?
(a) Hodgkinson’s disease.
(b) Ischemic heart disease.
(c) Corollary heart disease.
(d) Alzheimer’s disease.

3. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?
(a) The New York Medical Review.
(b) The Journal of Atlantic Medicine.
(c) Connecticut Medicine.
(d) The East Coast Journal of Medicine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?

2. What does TIA stand for?

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

4. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

5. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?

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