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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Hypertention.
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Decreased resistance to infection.

2. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) Harvey Nuland.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Phil Whiting.

3. What word from Chapter 10 refers to the transference of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces?
(a) Metabolomics.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Acute infection.
(d) Obtundation.

4. When was The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby published?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1883.

5. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) John Seidman.
(b) James Cowles Prichard.
(c) John Webster.
(d) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?

2. When was Percival Pott born?

3. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?

4. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?

5. How much did Robert DeMatteis weigh, according to the author in Chapter 11?

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