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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chapter 9’s title in the book?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

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

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

4. The author asserts in the Epilogue, “Between the lines of this book lies an unspoken plea for the resurrection of” what?
(a) “Healthy living.
(b) “Prayer as medicine.”
(c) “The family doctor.”
(d) “Natural medicine.”

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, the combination of accidents, suicide, and euthanasia comprise one of the foremost causes of death in those under what age?
(a) 56.
(b) 65.
(c) 44.
(d) 77.

6. 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) 30%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 60%.

7. 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?
(a) 10%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 5%.

8. 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) “Three Score and Ten.”
(d) “A Strangled Heart.”

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

10. 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) “Changing life.”
(b) “Taking life.”
(c) “Saving life.”
(d) “Living life.”

11. In what year was Ishmael Garcia diagnosed with HIV?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1995.

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

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

14. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Neoplasm.

15. What refers to knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application?
(a) Laws.
(b) Algorithms.
(c) Theories.
(d) Learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland say influenced the medical decisions he made in his brother's care in Chapter 11?

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 important word in the book refers to the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best?

4. What is the third of the three main stages of HIV?

5. How old was Robert DeMatteis, as described in Chapter 11?

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