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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. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?
(a) A decaying piece of fruit.
(b) A computer becoming obsolete.
(c) The parts-replacement capability in a machine.
(d) A truck rusting in the field.

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

3. In what year was Alzheimer’s disease properly identified?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1923.

4. The human heart is enclosed in a double-walled protective sac called what?
(a) The septum.
(b) The aphasia.
(c) The pericardium.
(d) The neoplasm.

5. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) The Maltese Falcon.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) The Little Foxes.
(d) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

2. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. When was Researches into the Physical History of Man published?

4. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What case study does the author cite in discussing death by murder in Chapter 6? How did this individual die?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. What medical advances does the author cite in the study of myocardial infarction in Chapter 2?

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

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

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