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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) Transient ischemic attack.
(b) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.
(c) Hypertention.
(d) Decreased resistance to infection.

2. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?
(a) The atria.
(b) The atrioventricular node.
(c) The sinoatrial node.
(d) The ventricles.

3. Who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Mankind?
(a) Phil Whiting.
(b) James Cowles Prichard.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

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

5. What does TIA stand for?
(a) Transient ischemic attack.
(b) Tubercular incendiary attack.
(c) Total ischemic attack.
(d) Transient irregular achievement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?

2. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland perform on James McCarty, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. All but how many names were changed in the stories shared by the author in How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, whereas a young person might have been able to fight off or change the course of illness, the elderly are attacked when the body's parts-replacement process is what?

5. Dr. Nuland theorizes that 85% of the aging population will die from one of seven primary causes, which he refers to as what in Chapter 4?

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