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

2. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
(a) Optometry.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Etymology.
(d) Biology.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7, the combination of accidents, suicide, and euthanasia comprise one of the foremost causes of death in those under what age?
(a) 44.
(b) 56.
(c) 77.
(d) 65.

4. How did Katie Mason die, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) She had AIDS.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She had cancer.
(d) She had an aneurysm.

5. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Loss of body heat.
(b) Lack of blinking.
(c) Loss of brain function.
(d) Lack of breathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?

2. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?

3. What individual does the author describe as having lost several friends, colleagues, and a lover to cancer and AIDS in Chapter 9?

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

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

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