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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?
(a) 78.
(b) 68.
(c) 56.
(d) 61.

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

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

4. 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 thoracotomy.
(d) A lobotomy.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?
(a) “Murder and Serenity.”
(b) “Three Score and Ten.”
(c) “Lessons Learned.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

3. In what year was Alzheimer’s disease properly identified?

4. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage?

5. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?

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