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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 was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?
(a) His third year.
(b) His sixth year.
(c) His first year.
(d) His seventh year.

2. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) William Caxton.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

3. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 7.
(b) 21.
(c) 90.
(d) 150.

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

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Metastasis.
(b) Asphyxia.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Dementia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?

2. What was the name of Dr. Nuland’s brother?

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

4. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?

5. At what age was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the processes universal to dying described by the author in his Introduction?

2. What medical progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, according to the author in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the author write of the “mystery” and “myth” of death in the Introduction?

10. How do the brain and heart change as a person ages, according to the author in Chapter 3?

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