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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. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?
(a) No longer functioning.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) In overdrive.
(d) At its limit.

2. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 5, as the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's increase, eventually the awareness of one's surrounding will be lost, as will what?
(a) Long term memory.
(b) Critical thinking ability.
(c) Gross motor skills.
(d) Eyesight.

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

4. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The septum.
(b) The stigma.
(c) The embolus.
(d) The neoplasm.

5. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Chronic heart disease.
(d) Alzheimer’s Disease.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were electrocardiograms invented?

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

4. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?

5. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author go about explaining the heart’s functions in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

8. How does the author describe the progression of Alzheimer’s in Chapter 5?

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

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

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