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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 title of Chapter 1?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(c) “A Strangled Heart.”
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

2. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 5, as the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's increase, eventually the awareness of one's surrounding will be lost, as will what?
(a) Critical thinking ability.
(b) Gross motor skills.
(c) Eyesight.
(d) Long term memory.

3. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 820.
(b) 65.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 250.

4. What does PCOD stand for in the text?
(a) Primary cause of distress.
(b) Primary cause of disease.
(c) Primary cause of dementia.
(d) Primary cause of death.

5. What refers to any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria?
(a) Bacteriophage.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Lymphocyte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland say influenced the medical decisions he made in his brother's care in Chapter 11?

2. What is the title of Chapter 5?

3. What is the first of the three main stages of HIV?

4. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage?

5. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?

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