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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?
(a) The seven doors to the afterlife.
(b) The seven knives of doom.
(c) The seven horsemen of death.
(d) The Grim Reaper’s seven sons.

3. In what year did Harold Bliss die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1933.

4. What fifteenth century printer is quoted in the Introduction as having described the art of dying as “the craft for to deye for the helthe of mannessowle”?
(a) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(b) William Caxton.
(c) James Cowles Prichard.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

5. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?
(a) Biology.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Optometry.
(d) Etymology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, James McCarty was the picture of what when he was admitted to the university hospital?

3. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, heart muscle and brain cells are unable to do what?

4. When was The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby published?

5. What word from Chapter 10 refers to the transference of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces?

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