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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?
(a) Microbiology.
(b) Pathophysiology.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Metabolomics.

2. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 7.
(b) 90.
(c) 21.
(d) 150.

3. 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) Dementia.
(b) Atrophy.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Obtundation.

4. What is the first of the four degrees of incoherence discussed in Chapter 5?
(a) Chronic insanity.
(b) Virtual insanity.
(c) Moral insanity.
(d) Colonic insanity.

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

6. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Looking after the sick and injured.”
(b) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”
(c) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(d) “Looking after America’s Health.”

7. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Transient ischemic attack.
(b) Hypertention.
(c) Decreased resistance to infection.
(d) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.

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

9. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

10. When were electrocardiograms invented?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1920.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?

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

3. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

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

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

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