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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 64.
(b) 47.
(c) 78.
(d) 39.

2. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?
(a) His third year.
(b) His seventh year.
(c) His first year.
(d) His sixth year.

3. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(b) Hypertention.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Decreased resistance to infection.

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(c) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."

5. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?
(a) Increases.
(b) Decreases.
(c) Begins to stagger.
(d) Remains stagnant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?

4. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?

5. What was the profession of James McCarty?

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