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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were electrocardiograms invented?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1920.

2. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) James Cowles Prichard.
(b) John Webster.
(c) John Seidman.
(d) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.

3. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) The Maltese Falcon.
(b) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Little Foxes.

4. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?
(a) The seven knives of doom.
(b) The seven doors to the afterlife.
(c) The Grim Reaper’s seven sons.
(d) The seven horsemen of death.

5. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?
(a) “The Wonderman.”
(b) “The Onlyman.”
(c) “The Everyman.”
(d) “The Superman.”

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?

2. What is the title of Chapter 5?

3. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

4. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?

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

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