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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

2. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?
(a) The Journal of Atlantic Medicine.
(b) The East Coast Journal of Medicine.
(c) The New York Medical Review.
(d) Connecticut Medicine.

3. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The sinoatrial node.
(b) The atrioventricular node.
(c) The ventricles.
(d) The atria.

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

5. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?
(a) A computer becoming obsolete.
(b) A truck rusting in the field.
(c) A decaying piece of fruit.
(d) The parts-replacement capability in a machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

2. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

3. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

4. The author states that he is entering what decade in his life in the Epilogue?

5. In what year did Harold Bliss die?

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