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

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

3. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?
(a) Fireman.
(b) Stockbroker.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Salesman.

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

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

6. 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?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Atrophy.

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

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

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

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

11. What was the name of Dr. Nuland’s brother?
(a) Roger Nuland.
(b) Robert Nuland.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Edmond Nuland.

12. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 18.
(b) 52.
(c) 43.
(d) 35.

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

14. 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) Atria.
(b) Embolus.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Agonal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 5, as the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's increase, eventually the awareness of one's surrounding will be lost, as will what?

2. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?

4. Who first identified and named Alzheimer’s disease?

5. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?

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