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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?
(a) Cellular aging.
(b) Hypertension.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Metastasis.

2. What is the second 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) Hypertention.

3. Dr. Nuland states that in another era, death was determined by the lack of a heartbeat. Today, however, death is equated with what?
(a) Loss of body heat.
(b) Lack of breathing.
(c) Lack of blinking.
(d) Loss of brain function.

4. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?
(a) Salesman.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Stockbroker.
(d) Fireman.

5. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) “Three Score and Ten.”
(b) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(c) “Murder and Serenity.”
(d) "The Malevolence of Cancer."

6. What is the motto of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
(a) “Looking after the sick and injured.”
(b) “Looking after America’s Health.”
(c) “Liberty, Health, and Freedom.”
(d) “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America.”

7. What was the name of Dr. Nuland’s brother?
(a) Edmond Nuland.
(b) Harvey Nuland.
(c) Robert Nuland.
(d) Roger Nuland.

8. Horace Giddens is a character in what play?
(a) The Little Foxes.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) The Maltese Falcon.
(d) A Long Day’s Journey into Night.

9. Of what does Horace Giddens eventually die in the play discussed in Chapter 2?
(a) Hypertension.
(b) Cardiogenic shock.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Cellular aging.

10. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?
(a) Optometrist.
(b) Neurologist.
(c) Radiologist.
(d) Pathophysiologist.

11. What is the first 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) Hypertension.
(d) Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.

12. 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?
(a) At its weakest.
(b) In overdrive.
(c) No longer functioning.
(d) At its limit.

13. At what age did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother emigrate from Europe to the United States?
(a) 54.
(b) 20.
(c) 44.
(d) 51.

14. At what age had Irv Lipsiner suffered a small heart attack, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) 47.
(b) 39.
(c) 78.
(d) 64.

15. Who is quoted with the following statement in Chapter 6: “Man is an obligate aerobe”?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage?

2. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?

3. By what name does the author refer to his grandmother?

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

5. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?

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