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

2. What does Dr. Nuland discuss that is also called also called coronary artery or coronary heart disease in Chapter 1?
(a) Alzheimer’s disease.
(b) Hodgkinson’s disease.
(c) Ischemic heart disease.
(d) Corollary heart disease.

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 5, as the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's increase, eventually the awareness of one's surrounding will be lost, as will what?
(a) Long term memory.
(b) Eyesight.
(c) Critical thinking ability.
(d) Gross motor skills.

4. What term, commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die?
(a) Myocardial infarction.
(b) Transient ischemic attack.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Metastasis.

5. When was Researches into the Physical History of Man published?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1813.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

3. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?

4. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Nuland say regarding the bureaucracy of death in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What case study does the author use as an example in his discussion of Alzheimer’s in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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