2. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 65.
(c) 250.
(d) 820.

3. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(d) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”

4. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?
(a) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(b) William Caxton.
(c) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(d) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.

5. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Embolus.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Atria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 1?

2. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

3. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?

4. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Horace Giddens and how is he described by the author?

2. How are heart problems and heart disease diagnosed and predicted, according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. What does the author beseech of the reader in his Introduction to How We Die?

4. What case study does the author use as an example in his discussion of Alzheimer’s in Chapter 5?

5. How is “legal death” defined by the author in Chapter 6?

6. How has the determination of death changed over time, according to the author in Chapter 2? What are Dr. Nuland’s conclusions of the determination of death?

7. How treatable are cardiac events, according to the author in Chapter 1?

8. What happened when Dr. Nuland was doing Mr. McCarty’s paperwork, according to the author in Chapter 1?

9. When did the author encounter James McCarty? How is McCarty depicted in Chapter 1?

10. How does the author explain man’s need for oxygen in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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