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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the profession of James McCarty?
(a) A construction executive.
(b) A real estate agent.
(c) An auto mechanic.
(d) A plumber.

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?
(a) Hemoglobin.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Endorphins.

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

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

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

7. What did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother eventually die from?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Asphyxia.

8. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1878.

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

10. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 7.
(b) 90.
(c) 150.
(d) 21.

11. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Adam Hammer, M.D.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Lillian Hellman.
(d) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.

12. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

13. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The embolus.
(b) The stigma.
(c) The septum.
(d) The neoplasm.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does TIA stand for?

2. What was the name of Dr. Nuland’s brother?

3. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?

5. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?

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