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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet is quoted by the author in the Introduction with the line, “Oh Lord, give each of us his own death”?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Dr. Kenneth Ring.
(c) Charles Kingsley.
(d) Hippocrates.

2. The author claims in the Introduction that “[t]he good death has become” what?
(a) “A wish.”
(b) “A treasure.”
(c) “A myth.”
(d) “A lottery.”

3. The upper chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Atria.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Plasmid.

4. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.
(b) The Maltese Falcon.
(c) The Little Foxes.
(d) Hamlet.

5. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?
(a) 44.
(b) 54.
(c) 20.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?

2. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?

3. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?

4. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?

5. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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