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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the most common neurological problems associated with HIV?
(a) Advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
(b) Schizophrenia and depression.
(c) AIDS dementia and toxoplasmosis.
(d) Chronic depression and anxiety disorders.

2. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?
(a) The Grim Reaper’s seven sons.
(b) The seven doors to the afterlife.
(c) The seven knives of doom.
(d) The seven horsemen of death.

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?
(a) Shock.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Cellular aging.

4. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) “A Strangled Heart.”
(b) “Three Score and Ten.”
(c) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."

5. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Herodotus.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?

2. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?

3. Robert DeMatteis only accepted treatment for his cancer at the urging of whom?

4. In what year was Ishmael Garcia diagnosed with HIV?

5. What refers to any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria?

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