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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. Into how many main chambers is the human heart divided?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.
2. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.
3. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?
(a) Yale College.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Stanford University.
4. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) “Alzheimer’s Disease.”
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
5. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Eminently treatable.”
(b) “Technically treatable.”
(c) “Officially treatable.”
(d) “Physically treatable.”
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Katie Mason when she died?
2. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage?
4. What does TIA stand for?
5. What is the title of Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a pathophysiologist? How does this relate to etymology, according to the author in Chapter 5?
2. What does the author beseech of the reader in his Introduction to How We Die?
3. What are the processes universal to dying described by the author in his Introduction?
4. How are heart problems and heart disease diagnosed and predicted, according to the author in Chapter 2?
5. What represents progress in cardiac care, according to the author in Chapter 2?
6. What is related of Irv Lipsiner in Chapter 1? What was Lipsiner’s medical history?
7. What information does the author relate of stroke fatalities in Chapter 4? Whose assistance does he cite in this chapter?
8. What seven primary causes of death does the author cite for elderly patients in Chapter 4?
9. What differences does the author cite between the young and the old in dealing with the seven causes of death in Chapter 4?
10. How does the author go about explaining the heart’s functions in Chapter 2?
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