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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 is the protagonist’s profession in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
2. The author states that he is entering what decade in his life in the Epilogue?
3. When was The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby published?
4. What was written in Robert DeMatteis’s epitaph, according to the author in Chapter 11?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What author does Dr. Nuland cite in Chapter 12? Why?
2. How would you characterize the language of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter?
3. Why does the author use chimney sweeps as an example in Chapter 10?
4. How are viruses spread? What does the author use as an example in Chapter 9?
5. What article by Percival Pott is described in Chapter 10? What does Dr. Nuland conclude regarding the article?
6. According to the author in Chapter 11, what is most often the influencing factor in treating the terminally ill?
7. What case study does the author cite in discussing AIDS and HIV in the beginning of Chapter 8?
8. What are most often the immediate causes of death in cancer patients, according to the author in Chapter 10?
9. How is the progression of AIDS described in Chapter 9?
10. How much money goes into the study of HIV, according to the author in Chapter 8? What have been the results of those studies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author’s case study of the woman with breast cancer presented in the Introduction. What are the fears that are illustrated in this example regarding death? What caused the woman the greatest concern about her mother’s passing? How did Dr. Nuland address these fears?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze mortality rates for the elderly in the past century. How has the lifespan of Americans evolved since 1900? What has caused this increase in the American lifespan? How has the extended lifespan of Americans affected the increase in Alzheimer’s disease?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze the symptoms, progression, and prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease. What are the first signs of the disease’s onset? How does the progression eventually lead to the death of the patient? What causes Alzheimer's disease?
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