1. What is the title of Chapter 3 of the book?
(a) “Three Score and Ten.”
(b) “Murder and Serenity.”
(c) “A Strangled Heart.”
(d) “Lessons Learned.”

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

3. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?
(a) Aphasia.
(b) Neoplasm.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Embolus.

4. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Pathophysiology.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Microbiology.

5. Who is the protagonist of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) Mark.
(b) Jack.
(c) Rob.
(d) Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Katie Mason die, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. How old was Dr. Nuland’s grandmother when he was born?

4. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

5. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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