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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Metastasis.

2. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Convulse and shout.
(b) Scratch his arms intensely.
(c) Tap his feet rapidly.
(d) Sweat and cry.

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

4. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(b) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(c) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(d) Lillian Hellman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

4. What is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

5. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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