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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?
(a) Cellular aging.
(b) Hypertension.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Exsanguination.

4. 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.”

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

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

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

8. 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) Scratch his arms intensely.
(b) Convulse and shout.
(c) Sweat and cry.
(d) Tap his feet rapidly.

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

10. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?
(a) Charles Kingsley.
(b) William Caxton.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) James Cowles Prichard.

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

12. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Lack of breathing.
(b) Loss of body heat.
(c) Lack of blinking.
(d) Loss of brain function.

13. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?
(a) Optometrist.
(b) Radiologist.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Pathophysiologist.

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

15. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Shock.
(c) Cellular aging.
(d) Obtundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?

2. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?

3. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?

4. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?

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

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