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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in the Epilogue, “For those who die and those who love them, a realistic expectation is the surest path to” what?
(a) “Resolution.”
(b) “Tranquility.”
(c) “Healing.”
(d) “Normality.”

2. William Osler was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at what institution?
(a) Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(b) St. Joseph's Hospital.
(c) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(d) St. Mark's Hospital.

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

4. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?
(a) Endorphins.
(b) Bacteriophage.
(c) Ventricles.
(d) Lymphocyte.

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

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

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

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

9. When was The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby published?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1918.

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

11. The average virus is what fraction of the size of the average bacterium?
(a) One-fiftieth.
(b) One-fifth.
(c) One-hundredth.
(d) One-tenth.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the first of the three main stages of HIV?

4. Harold Bliss was how old when he died?

5. What is the protagonist’s profession in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

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