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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.

2. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Cellular aging.
(c) Acute infection.
(d) Strokes.

3. What is the first of the three main stages of HIV?
(a) Clinical Latency.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Acute infection.
(d) Myocardial infarction.

4. What term, commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die?
(a) Metastasis.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

5. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 52.
(b) 18.
(c) 35.
(d) 43.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

2. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

3. What is the title of Chapter 8 in the book?

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

5. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

(see the answer key)

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