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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 is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Hypertension.
(b) Decreased resistance to infection.
(c) Transient ischemic attack.
(d) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.

2. What is the title of Chapter 2 of the book?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

3. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?
(a) 44.
(b) 51.
(c) 54.
(d) 20.

4. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother eventually die from?
(a) Asphyxia.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Dementia.
(d) A stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?

2. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

3. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

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

5. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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