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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. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) The Maltese Falcon.
(d) The Little Foxes.

2. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The sinoatrial node.
(b) The atrioventricular node.
(c) The atria.
(d) The ventricles.

3. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Loss of hearing.
(b) Pressure in his chest and left side.
(c) A pain in his right knee.
(d) Loss of vision.

4. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Atria.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Plasmid.
(d) Embolus.

5. 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) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Pandemic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does TIA stand for?

2. How many years had Dr. Nuland spent in the medical profession when How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was published?

3. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?

5. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author beseech of the reader in his Introduction to How We Die?

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

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

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

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

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

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