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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 8 refers to a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation?
(a) Atria.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Stigma.
(d) Aphasia.

2. What refers to a disease outbreak, which presents over a large area and is actively spreading?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Trauma.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Atria.

3. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(b) Loss of hearing.
(c) A pain in his right knee.
(d) Loss of vision.

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(d) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?

2. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?

4. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

5. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

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