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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 10, contemporary medicine is responsible for the five-year remission rate of childhood leukemia now being nearly what percent?
(a) 75%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 30%.

2. What profession did Robert DeMatteis have?
(a) Schoolteacher.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Computer guru.

3. The author writes in the Epilogue, “A family grasps at a straw that comes in the form of” what?
(a) “An urban legend.”
(b) “A bible verse.”
(c) “A newspaper article.”
(d) “A statistic.”

4. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Cardiogenic shock.
(d) Exsanguination.

5. Virology is a sub-specialty of what scientific study?
(a) Archeology.
(b) Microbiology.
(c) Neurology.
(d) Epidemiology.

6. Who discovered and studied the tobacco mosaic virus in 1892?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) William Caxton.
(d) Lillian Hellman.

7. What word from Chapter 8 refers to a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Atria.
(d) Stigma.

8. Where was Leo Tolstoy from?
(a) Norway.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

9. Robert DeMatteis was desperately afraid of what, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) Heights.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Dogs and other large animals.
(d) Medical personnel.

10. Robert DeMatteis’s determination to not lose what made him stand out in Dr. Nuland’s mind?
(a) The best part of himself.
(b) His sense of humor.
(c) His positive outlook.
(d) His greatest talent.

11. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?
(a) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
(b) Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers.
(c) The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher.
(d) Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital.

12. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 225 B.C.
(b) 115 A.D.
(c) 460 B.C.
(d) 650 B.C.

13. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1869.

14. In what year was Ishmael Garcia discovered to have contracted meningitis and several bacterial infections, according to the author in Chapter 8?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1992.

15. When did symptoms indicate that Ishmael Garcia’s lungs were infected?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does the author use in the Epilogue to refer to a person who investigates and attempts to resolve complaints and problems?

3. 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?

4. Where was William Osler born?

5. According to the author in Chapter 8, what percentage of the National Institutes of Health approximately $9 billion budget goes to the study of HIV?

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