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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?
(a) Over 30.
(b) Over 40.
(c) Over 50.
(d) Over 20.

2. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
(a) Optometry.
(b) Etymology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Chemotherapy.

3. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) Cardiogenic shock.
(b) Hypertension.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Cellular aging.

4. 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.

5. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(c) “Lessons Learned.”
(d) "The Malevolence of Cancer."

Short Answer Questions

1. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?

3. Who first identified and named Alzheimer’s disease?

4. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

5. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?

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