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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does the author use in the Epilogue to refer to a victory with such a devastating cost that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately lead to defeat?
(a) Empiric.
(b) Pyrrhic.
(c) Aristotelian.
(d) Aristocratic.

2. Where was William Osler born?
(a) Canada.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Brazil.

3. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(b) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(c) “A Strangled Heart.”
(d) “Three Score and Ten.”

4. The word “virus” derives from the Latin “virus,” which means what?
(a) Infection.
(b) Poison.
(c) Killer.
(d) Ailment.

5. What is the title of Chapter 8 in the book?
(a) “A Story of AIDS.”
(b) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(c) “Three Score and Ten.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

6. The author claims in the Epilogue that “good health is a guarantee of” what?
(a) “Nothing.”
(b) “Easy life.”
(c) “Long life.”
(d) “Body function.”

7. Harold Bliss was how old when he died?
(a) 68.
(b) 76.
(c) 92.
(d) 51.

8. How much did Robert DeMatteis weigh, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) 150 lbs.
(b) 185 lbs.
(c) 320 lbs.
(d) 245 lbs.

9. How many children did Ishmael Garcia have?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

10. What individual does the author describe as having lost several friends, colleagues, and a lover to cancer and AIDS in Chapter 9?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Alois Alzheimer.
(c) John Seidman.
(d) Phil Whiting.

11. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a lack of effectiveness or success?
(a) Futility.
(b) Rigidity.
(c) Mimicry.
(d) Morality.

12. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in what year?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1990.

13. It is suggested that Ishmael Garcia contracted HIV by what means?
(a) During a surgical procedure.
(b) Cutting himself on the subway.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Drug use.

14. What word from Chapter 10 refers to the transference of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces?
(a) Metabolomics.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Acute infection.
(d) Metastasis.

15. Robert DeMatteis only accepted treatment for his cancer at the urging of whom?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was written in Robert DeMatteis’s epitaph, according to the author in Chapter 11?

2. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?

3. When was The Kingdom of God Is Within You published?

4. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?

5. The author states that he is entering what decade in his life in the Epilogue?

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