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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, the combination of accidents, suicide, and euthanasia comprise one of the foremost causes of death in those under what age?
(a) 77.
(b) 44.
(c) 56.
(d) 65.

2. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?
(a) Sub divo.
(b) Facfortiaetpatere.
(c) Manibus date liliaplenis.
(d) Arsmoriendi.

3. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(b) Lillian Hellman.
(c) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(d) Dmitri Ivanovsky.

4. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Physically treatable.”
(b) “Officially treatable.”
(c) “Technically treatable.”
(d) “Eminently treatable.”

5. 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) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) John Webster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?

2. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?

3. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

4. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?

5. The average virus is what fraction of the size of the average bacterium?

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