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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The embolus.
(b) The neoplasm.
(c) The stigma.
(d) The septum.

2. What is Chapter 9’s title in the book?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

3. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in what year?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1975.

4. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) Moral insanity.
(b) Virtual insanity.
(c) Colonic insanity.
(d) Chronic insanity.

5. 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”?
(a) William Caxton.
(b) James Cowles Prichard.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Ishmael Garcia have?

2. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

3. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

4. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. What does TIA stand for?

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