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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(b) “Looking after the sick and injured.”
(c) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”
(d) “Looking after America’s Health.”

2. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

3. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The neoplasm.
(b) The stigma.
(c) The embolus.
(d) The septum.

4. Where does author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. teach surgery and the history of medicine, according to the book’s Introduction?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Yale College.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Oxford University.

5. Who was the first physician to correctly diagnose myocardial infarction?
(a) Lillian Hellman.
(b) Dmitri Ivanovsky.
(c) Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
(d) Adam Hammer, M.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Introduction author Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. is the literary editor of what periodical?

2. According to the author in the Introduction, “Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to” what?

3. How many of the most common disease categories does the author intend to focus on, according to the Introduction?

4. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

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

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