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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term does the author use in the Epilogue to refer to a person who investigates and attempts to resolve complaints and problems?
2. According to the author in Chapter 10, contemporary medicine is responsible for the five-year remission rate of childhood leukemia now being nearly what percent?
3. The protagonist of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby falls into a river after encountering what upper-class girl?
4. Who discovered and studied the tobacco mosaic virus in 1892?
5. Where was Leo Tolstoy from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What author does Dr. Nuland cite in Chapter 12? Why?
2. What made Robert DeMatteis memorable to Dr. Nuland as a patient?
3. What article by Percival Pott is described in Chapter 10? What does Dr. Nuland conclude regarding the article?
4. What is the central message in Chapter 12? How is hope related to this message?
5. How would you characterize the language of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter?
6. What problems and diseases are associated with those infected with AIDS, according to the author in Chapter 9?
7. How is the etymology of cancer related to its progression as a disease?
8. What did Dr. Nuland conclude of his decisions regarding his brother’s care in Chapter 11?
9. What does Dr. Nuland suggest regarding the works of William Osler and Lewis Thomas in Chapter 7?
10. What does the author assert regarding assisted suicide for the elderly in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss John Seidman’s experiences with death as discussed in Chapter 9. What did Seidman experience as he lost friends and family to AIDS and cancer? How did he describe the healing process that took place during the deaths of his loved ones? Have you experienced the death of a loved one? If so, how did your experience relate to those of Seidman?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the discovery of AIDS in the U.S. in 1981 and medical progress in the diagnoses, evaluation, and treatment of the disease. How has the prognosis for HIV/AIDS changed in the past decade? What theories explain the spread of AIDS in the United States? Where did AIDS originate?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze the characteristics of James McCarty in Chapter 1. What evidence described by the author indicates that McCarty was prone to heart problems? How did Dr. Nuland respond when McCarty had a heart attack? What medical procedure was performed?
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