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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 term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Finite.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Myocardial infarction.

2. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 19.

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

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

5. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 39.
(b) 78.
(c) 64.
(d) 47.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?

2. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

4. What is the title of Chapter 4 of the book?

5. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened when Dr. Nuland was doing Mr. McCarty’s paperwork, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

7. What differences does the author cite between the young and the old in dealing with the seven causes of death in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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