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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) At its limit.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) No longer functioning.
(d) In overdrive.

2. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) Cellular aging.
(b) Acute infection.
(c) Strokes.
(d) AIDS.

3. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?
(a) Harvey Nuland.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) John Webster.

4. What word does Dr. Nuland use in Chapter 4 to refer to an impairment of language ability?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Embolus.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Obtundation.

5. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?
(a) Reproduce.
(b) Become infected.
(c) Die.
(d) Fight disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?

2. 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?

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?

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. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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