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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third of the three main stages of HIV?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Acute infection.
(c) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Clinical Latency.

2. Harold Bliss was the first documented case of death by what means?
(a) Automotive accident.
(b) Electrocution.
(c) Radiation exposure.
(d) Allergic reaction.

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

4. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?
(a) Embolus.
(b) Plasmid.
(c) Hemoglobin.
(d) Atria.

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

6. When was Percival Pott born?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1714.
(c) 1653.
(d) 1776.

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

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

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

10. What are the most common neurological problems associated with HIV?
(a) Schizophrenia and depression.
(b) AIDS dementia and toxoplasmosis.
(c) Advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
(d) Chronic depression and anxiety disorders.

11. What refers to the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Politics.
(c) Morality.
(d) Religion.

12. The author claims in the Epilogue, “We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of” what?
(a) “Taking life.”
(b) “Changing life.”
(c) “Living life.”
(d) “Saving life.”

13. When was The Kingdom of God Is Within You published?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1860.

14. According to the author in Chapter 12, “Death belongs to the dying and” who?
(a) “Those who insure them.”
(b) “Those who love them.”
(c) “Their beneficiaries.”
(d) “God.”

15. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) “A Strangled Heart.”
(c) “Lessons Learned.”
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?

2. Robert DeMatteis only accepted treatment for his cancer at the urging of whom?

3. What individual does the author describe as having lost several friends, colleagues, and a lover to cancer and AIDS in Chapter 9?

4. What does the Latin phrase “Arsmorendi is ars vivendi” mean?

5. 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?

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