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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 is Chapter 9’s title in the book?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(c) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(d) “Murder and Serenity.”

2. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a lack of effectiveness or success?
(a) Morality.
(b) Mimicry.
(c) Futility.
(d) Rigidity.

3. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?
(a) Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital.
(b) Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers.
(c) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
(d) The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher.

4. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) Charles Kingsley.
(b) Dr. Kennith Ring.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) William Caxton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 12, “The Hippocratic philosophy of medicine declares that nothing should be more important to a physician than” what?

2. 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?

3. Where was William Osler born?

4. According to the author in Chapter 8, what percentage of the National Institutes of Health approximately $9 billion budget goes to the study of HIV?

5. How many children did Ishmael Garcia have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the author assert regarding assisted suicide for the elderly in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the author relate regarding one’s quality of life in the Epilogue?

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