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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) A menisectomy.
(b) A lobotomy.
(c) A thoracotomy.
(d) A vasectomy.

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?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Obtundation.
(d) Dementia.

3. In what year did Harold Bliss die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1941.

4. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) “Lessons Learned.”
(c) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(d) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”

5. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Lillian Hellman.
(c) William Caxton.
(d) Phil Whiting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 8 refers to a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation?

2. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?

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. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?

5. What refers to a disease outbreak, which presents over a large area and is actively spreading?

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