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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 brain function.
(b) Lack of blinking.
(c) Loss of body heat.
(d) Lack of breathing.

2. What word from Chapter 8 refers to a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Stigma.
(d) Atria.

3. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(b) Loss of hearing.
(c) Loss of vision.
(d) A pain in his right knee.

4. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Alzheimer’s Disease.
(d) Chronic heart disease.

5. When did symptoms indicate that Ishmael Garcia’s lungs were infected?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?

3. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?

4. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?

5. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?

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