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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb?
(a) Cardiogenic shock.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Trauma.

2. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Finite.
(c) Myocardial infarction.
(d) Pandemic.

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(b) “Murder and Serenity.”
(c) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(d) “Three Score and Ten.”

4. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(c) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."
(d) “Lessons Learned.”

5. 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?
(a) Acute infection.
(b) Metabolomics.
(c) Obtundation.
(d) Metastasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?

2. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?

4. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?

5. In examining the “Near-Death Experience” in Chapter 6, Dr. Nuland presents statistics from the case studies of what psychologist?

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