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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second 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) Decreased resistance to infection.
(c) Hypertention.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Nana.”
(b) “Mamaw.”
(c) “Granny.”
(d) “Bubbeh.”

3. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) Phil Whiting.
(b) Harvey Nuland.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) John Webster.

4. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?
(a) William Caxton.
(b) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(c) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(d) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.

5. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The sinoatrial node.
(b) The ventricles.
(c) The atria.
(d) The atrioventricular node.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered and studied the tobacco mosaic virus in 1892?

2. How old was Katie Mason when she died?

3. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?

4. What is the first of the three main stages of HIV?

5. What refers to a disease outbreak, which presents over a large area and is actively spreading?

(see the answer key)

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