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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Plasmid.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Atria.

2. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 35.
(b) 43.
(c) 18.
(d) 52.

3. 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) Metastasis.
(c) Hypertension.
(d) Cellular aging.

4. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Decreased resistance to infection.
(b) Hypertention.
(c) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Asphyxia.

6. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?
(a) The seven horsemen of death.
(b) The Grim Reaper’s seven sons.
(c) The seven knives of doom.
(d) The seven doors to the afterlife.

7. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 47.
(b) 78.
(c) 64.
(d) 39.

8. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) A menisectomy.
(b) A lobotomy.
(c) A thoracotomy.
(d) A vasectomy.

9. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?
(a) The Shriner's Hospital.
(b) St. Joseph’s Hospital.
(c) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(d) St. Paul's Hospital.

10. What does TIA stand for?
(a) Tubercular incendiary attack.
(b) Total ischemic attack.
(c) Transient irregular achievement.
(d) Transient ischemic attack.

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

12. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) Moral insanity.
(b) Virtual insanity.
(c) Chronic insanity.
(d) Colonic insanity.

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

14. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Metastasis.

15. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?
(a) “Lessons Learned.”
(b) “Three Score and Ten.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?

2. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

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

4. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

5. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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