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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?
(a) A toned athlete.
(b) A middle-aged working man.
(c) An overweight workaholic.
(d) A decrepit old man.

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

3. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(b) Lillian Hellman.
(c) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(d) Dmitri Ivanovsky.

4. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
(a) Metabolomics.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Atria.

5. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?
(a) Embolus.
(b) Hemoglobin.
(c) Atria.
(d) Plasmid.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

3. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?

4. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

5. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

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