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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Ishmael Garcia discovered to have contracted meningitis and several bacterial infections, according to the author in Chapter 8?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1989.

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) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) Harvey Nuland.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) John Webster.

3. Where was Irv Lipsiner when he suffered from complete cardiac heart failure, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) A tennis court.
(b) At his office.
(c) A hiking trail.
(d) In his home.

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) Oxford University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. What term from Chapter 6 refers to something pertaining to or symptomatic of agony, especially paroxysmal distress, as the death throes?
(a) Agonal.
(b) Myocardial infarction.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Finite.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, the combination of accidents, suicide, and euthanasia comprise one of the foremost causes of death in those under what age?

2. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?

3. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

4. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?

5. Incidents of tuberculosis in AIDS patients are said to be how many times greater than non-AIDS related cases?

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