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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?
(a) John Seidman.
(b) G.J. Walker Smith, M.D.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) John Webster.

2. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Technically treatable.”
(b) “Eminently treatable.”
(c) “Physically treatable.”
(d) “Officially treatable.”

3. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?
(a) Salesman.
(b) Stockbroker.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Fireman.

4. What term, commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Myocardial infarction.

5. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The sinoatrial node.
(b) The atria.
(c) The atrioventricular node.
(d) The ventricles.

Short Answer Questions

1. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

2. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?

3. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?

4. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?

5. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the brain and heart change as a person ages, according to the author in Chapter 3?

2. How does the author describe the metabolic changes of aging in Chapter 3?

3. What seven primary causes of death does the author cite for elderly patients in Chapter 4?

4. What statistics does Dr. Nuland provide relating to ischemic heart disease in Chapter 1?

5. What does Dr. Nuland suggest as the cause for the sense of peace that describes certain individuals who die through severe trauma in Chapter 6?

6. What does Dr. Nuland say regarding the bureaucracy of death in Chapter 3?

7. What is related of Irv Lipsiner in Chapter 1? What was Lipsiner’s medical history?

8. What does the author say in relation to the expectation of growing old in Chapter 4?

9. What is a pathophysiologist? How does this relate to etymology, according to the author in Chapter 5?

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

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