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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Embolus.
(b) Plasmid.
(c) Atria.
(d) Ventricles.

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

5. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Phil Whiting.

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

7. 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) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

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

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

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

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

12. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) “Bubbeh.”
(b) “Granny.”
(c) “Mamaw.”
(d) “Nana.”

13. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) The Little Foxes.
(b) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Maltese Falcon.

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

15. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) A lobotomy.
(b) A thoracotomy.
(c) A vasectomy.
(d) A menisectomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

2. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

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

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

5. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?

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