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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 word from the Epilogue means caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Traumalogical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Pathological.

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?
(a) “Three Score and Ten.”
(b) “A Strangled Heart.”
(c) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

3. When did symptoms indicate that Ishmael Garcia’s lungs were infected?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1985.

4. In what year was Ishmael Garcia diagnosed with HIV?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1990.

5. What does PCOD stand for in the text?
(a) Primary cause of disease.
(b) Primary cause of distress.
(c) Primary cause of death.
(d) Primary cause of dementia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Percival Pott born?

2. The author asserts in the Epilogue, “Between the lines of this book lies an unspoken plea for the resurrection of” what?

3. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?

4. What word from Chapter 10 refers to the transference of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author state regarding dignity in death in the Epilogue?

2. What article by Percival Pott is described in Chapter 10? What does Dr. Nuland conclude regarding the article?

3. What does Dr. Nuland suggest regarding the works of William Osler and Lewis Thomas in Chapter 7?

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

5. What made Robert DeMatteis memorable to Dr. Nuland as a patient?

6. How is the progression of AIDS described in Chapter 9?

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

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

9. Why does the author use chimney sweeps as an example in Chapter 10?

10. What does the author caution the reader against in Chapter 12? Why?

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