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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?
(a) Subject to mutation.
(b) Finite.
(c) Not subject to mutation.
(d) Infinite.

2. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(c) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?
(a) Reproduce.
(b) Die.
(c) Fight disease.
(d) Become infected.

4. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?
(a) 56.
(b) 35.
(c) 29.
(d) 43.

5. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The ventricles.
(b) The atria.
(c) The sinoatrial node.
(d) The atrioventricular node.

6. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Finite.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Agonal.

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

8. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Lack of blinking.
(b) Lack of breathing.
(c) Loss of brain function.
(d) Loss of body heat.

9. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?
(a) The East Coast Journal of Medicine.
(b) The Journal of Atlantic Medicine.
(c) Connecticut Medicine.
(d) The New York Medical Review.

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

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

12. What term, commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die?
(a) Metastasis.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Aphasia.

13. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”
(b) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(c) “Looking after America’s Health.”
(d) “Looking after the sick and injured.”

14. When were electrocardiograms invented?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1877.

15. Who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Mankind?
(a) James Cowles Prichard.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) Harvey Nuland.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?

2. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

4. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

5. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?

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