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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?
(a) Begins to stagger.
(b) Remains stagnant.
(c) Increases.
(d) Decreases.

2. What is the title of Chapter 11?
(a) “Lessons Learned.”
(b) “Hope and the Cancer Patient.”
(c) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(d) “A Story of AIDS.”

3. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
(a) Atria.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Endorphins.

4. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?
(a) Charles Kingsley.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Dr. Kenneth Ring.

5. In what year did Harold Bliss die?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?

2. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?

3. The author asserts in the Epilogue, “Between the lines of this book lies an unspoken plea for the resurrection of” what?

4. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. The medical etymology of the term cancer can be traced back to the days of whom, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 10?

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