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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 important word in the book refers to the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best?
(a) Remorse.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Hope.
(d) Fortitude.

2. Incidents of tuberculosis in AIDS patients are said to be how many times greater than non-AIDS related cases?
(a) 140.
(b) 360.
(c) 30.
(d) 500.

3. When was Percival Pott born?
(a) 1714.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1653.
(d) 1776.

4. By what title is Hippocrates often referred?
(a) Ancient Rome’s official physician.
(b) The doctor of ancient Greece.
(c) The ancient witchdoctor.
(d) The father of Western medicine.

5. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Exsanguination.
(c) Obtundation.
(d) Cardiogenic shock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harold Bliss was how old when he died?

2. It is suggested that Ishmael Garcia contracted HIV by what means?

3. What does the Latin phrase “Arsmorendi is ars vivendi” mean?

4. What is the protagonist’s profession in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

5. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author begin Chapter 12? What does Dr. Nuland cite as his learning experiences in this chapter?

2. How are viruses spread? What does the author use as an example in Chapter 9?

3. What are most often the immediate causes of death in cancer patients, according to the author in Chapter 10?

4. How would you characterize the language of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter?

5. What author does Dr. Nuland cite in Chapter 12? Why?

6. What case study does the author cite in discussing AIDS and HIV in the beginning of Chapter 8?

7. How much money goes into the study of HIV, according to the author in Chapter 8? What have been the results of those studies?

8. What is stated regarding the statistics of suicide in Chapter 7?

9. How does the author describe the development of HIV and AIDS knowledge in the medical community in Chapter 8?

10. What conclusions did John Seidman reach regarding death and the dying?

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