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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Horace Giddens is described by Dr. Nuland as what in Chapter 2?
(a) “The Onlyman.”
(b) “The Superman.”
(c) “The Everyman.”
(d) “The Wonderman.”

4. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Eminently treatable.”
(b) “Technically treatable.”
(c) “Officially treatable.”
(d) “Physically treatable.”

5. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?
(a) Begins to stagger.
(b) Remains stagnant.
(c) Increases.
(d) Decreases.

6. What did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother eventually die from?
(a) Dementia.
(b) A stroke.
(c) Asphyxia.
(d) Myocardial infarction.

7. How old was James McCarty when he was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked?
(a) 43.
(b) 52.
(c) 35.
(d) 18.

8. What is the name of Janet Whiting’s husband described in Chapter 5?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Phil Whiting.
(c) Harvey Nuland.
(d) Dmitri Ivanovsky.

9. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of humans?
(a) Hemoglobin.
(b) Endorphins.
(c) Ventricles.
(d) Plasmid.

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

11. Horace Giddens is a character in a play written by whom?
(a) William Caxton.
(b) Lillian Hellman.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

12. The human embryonic heart begins beating at around how many days after conception?
(a) 21.
(b) 150.
(c) 7.
(d) 90.

13. 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) Plasmid.
(b) Agonal.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Atria.

14. At the time the book was written, Dr. Nuland claimed that nearly how many Americans would die every day of ischemia?
(a) 820.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 65.
(d) 250.

15. What word used in Chapter 4 refers to a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Dementia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?

2. The electric energy that stimulates the heart occurs where?

3. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

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

5. Dr. Nuland compares the metabolic changes of aging to what in Chapter 3?

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