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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 5?
(a) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(d) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”

2. Who is the protagonist of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) Rob.
(b) Jack.
(c) Mark.
(d) Tom.

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

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

5. What term does the author use in the Epilogue to refer to a victory with such a devastating cost that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately lead to defeat?
(a) Aristotelian.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Pyrrhic.
(d) Empiric.

Short Answer 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?

2. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage?

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

4. In what year was Alzheimer’s disease properly identified?

5. The author claims in the Epilogue that “good health is a guarantee of” what?

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