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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 word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Asphyxia.

2. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Looking after America’s Health.”
(b) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(c) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”
(d) “Looking after the sick and injured.”

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?
(a) “Speculate.”
(b) “Say so.”
(c) “Ask the tough questions.”
(d) “Investigate.”

4. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1912.

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?
(a) Subject to mutation.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Not subject to mutation.
(d) Finite.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

2. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?

3. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?

4. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

5. Where do Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. and his family currently live, according to the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the processes universal to dying described by the author in his Introduction?

3. What represents progress in cardiac care, according to the author in Chapter 2?

4. What information does the author relate of stroke fatalities in Chapter 4? Whose assistance does he cite in this chapter?

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

6. How does the author describe the degeneration of his grandmother in Chapter 3?

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

8. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland Perform on James McCarty? What was the outcome?

9. What does the author write of the “mystery” and “myth” of death in the Introduction?

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

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