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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) “Lessons Learned.”
(b) “A Strangled Heart.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “Three Score and Ten.”

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Mamaw.”
(b) “Granny.”
(c) “Nana.”
(d) “Bubbeh.”

3. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 19.

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?
(a) In overdrive.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) No longer functioning.
(d) At its limit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

2. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?

3. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?

4. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?

5. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?

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