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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) “Three Score and Ten.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

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

3. 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) Myocardial infarction.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Metastasis.

4. 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) Embolus.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Atria.

5. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) “Lessons Learned.”
(c) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(d) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”

6. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?
(a) Trauma.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Cardiogenic shock.

7. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Tap his feet rapidly.
(b) Sweat and cry.
(c) Scratch his arms intensely.
(d) Convulse and shout.

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

9. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?
(a) 54.
(b) 44.
(c) 20.
(d) 51.

10. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?
(a) A decrepit old man.
(b) A toned athlete.
(c) A middle-aged working man.
(d) An overweight workaholic.

11. 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) “Speculate.”
(d) “Say so.”

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

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

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

15. 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) Metabolomics.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Atria.
(d) Endorphins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

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

3. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?

4. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

5. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?

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