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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William Osler was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at what institution?
(a) St. Joseph's Hospital.
(b) Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(c) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(d) St. Mark's Hospital.

2. What word from Chapter 4 refers to any detached, traveling intravascular mass carried by circulation which is capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site distant from its point of origin?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Plasmid.
(c) Atria.
(d) Embolus.

3. What is the title of Chapter 1?
(a) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(b) “A Strangled Heart.”
(c) "The Malevolence of Cancer."
(d) "Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia."

4. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Asphyxia.
(c) Obtundation.
(d) Dementia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What director of the autopsy service of the Yale-New Haven Hospital does Dr. Nuland credit for his assistance in Chapter 4?

2. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?

3. In what year was Ishmael Garcia diagnosed with HIV?

4. Dr. Nuland was in what year of his medical studies when he encountered James McCarty?

5. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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