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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1904.

2. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Hamden, Connecticut.
(b) Augusta, Maine.
(c) Utica, New York.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

3. What are the most common neurological problems associated with HIV?
(a) Schizophrenia and depression.
(b) AIDS dementia and toxoplasmosis.
(c) Advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
(d) Chronic depression and anxiety disorders.

4. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) At his office.
(b) In his home.
(c) A hiking trail.
(d) A tennis court.

5. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?
(a) The Shriner's Hospital.
(b) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(c) St. Paul's Hospital.
(d) St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third of the three main stages of HIV?

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?

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

5. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

(see the answer key)

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