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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?
(a) Chronic heart disease.
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) AIDS.

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?
(a) “Ask the tough questions.”
(b) “Investigate.”
(c) “Speculate.”
(d) “Say so.”

3. How old was the author when his mother died of cancer?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 19.

4. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Tap his feet rapidly.
(b) Scratch his arms intensely.
(c) Sweat and cry.
(d) Convulse and shout.

5. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

2. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?

3. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?

4. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?

5. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?

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