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Sherwin B. Nuland
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How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Acute infection.
(c) Cellular aging.
(d) Strokes.

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

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

5. How did Katie Mason die, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) She had an aneurysm.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She had AIDS.
(d) She had cancer.

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

7. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?
(a) “A lottery.”
(b) “A myth.”
(c) “A treasure.”
(d) “A wish.”

8. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?
(a) “Ask the tough questions.”
(b) “Investigate.”
(c) “Say so.”
(d) “Speculate.”

9. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?
(a) His sixth year.
(b) His seventh year.
(c) His third year.
(d) His first year.

10. 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) Atria.
(b) Agonal.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Plasmid.

11. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?
(a) Providence, Rhode Island.
(b) Hamden, Connecticut.
(c) Augusta, Maine.
(d) Utica, New York.

12. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?
(a) A decaying piece of fruit.
(b) A computer becoming obsolete.
(c) A truck rusting in the field.
(d) The parts-replacement capability in a machine.

13. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Cardiogenic shock.
(c) Cellular aging.
(d) Hypertension.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

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

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?

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

5. When were electrocardiograms invented?

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