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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Atria.
(b) Embolus.
(c) Ventricles.
(d) Plasmid.

5. When was Researches into the Physical History of Man published?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1775.

6. 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?
(a) At its weakest.
(b) No longer functioning.
(c) In overdrive.
(d) At its limit.

7. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Bubbeh.”
(b) “Granny.”
(c) “Nana.”
(d) “Mamaw.”

8. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?
(a) Alzheimer’s Disease.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Chronic heart disease.

9. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Physically treatable.”
(b) “Technically treatable.”
(c) “Eminently treatable.”
(d) “Officially treatable.”

10. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Endorphins.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Atria.

11. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) John Seidman.
(b) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) John Webster.

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

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

14. The human heart is enclosed in a double-walled protective sac called what?
(a) The pericardium.
(b) The neoplasm.
(c) The septum.
(d) The aphasia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

3. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?

4. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

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

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