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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

2. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. Who first identified and named Alzheimer’s disease?
(a) Suzanne Alzheimer.
(b) Alois Alzheimer.
(c) Rebecca Alzheimer.
(d) Laura Alzheimer.

4. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Loss of vision.
(b) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(c) A pain in his right knee.
(d) Loss of hearing.

5. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?
(a) 80-120.
(b) 650-750.
(c) 425-500.
(d) 250-350.

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

7. In what year was Alzheimer’s disease properly identified?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1940.

8. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?
(a) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(d) William Caxton.

9. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
(b) The Little Foxes.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Maltese Falcon.

10. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Radiologist.
(c) Optometrist.
(d) Pathophysiologist.

11. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Lillian Hellman.
(c) William Caxton.
(d) Phil Whiting.

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

13. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?
(a) Pathophysiology.
(b) Microbiology.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Chemotherapy.

14. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) Hypertension.
(c) Cellular aging.
(d) Metastasis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

2. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

3. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?

4. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

5. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

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