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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Latin term does the author use to describe the “art of dying” in the Introduction?
(a) Sub divo.
(b) Arsmoriendi.
(c) Manibus date liliaplenis.
(d) Facfortiaetpatere.

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

5. James McCarty was admitted to the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked after experiencing what?
(a) Loss of vision.
(b) Loss of hearing.
(c) A pain in his right knee.
(d) Pressure in his chest and left side.

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

7. 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) No longer functioning.
(c) In overdrive.
(d) At its limit.

8. What word does Dr. Nuland use in Chapter 4 to refer to an impairment of language ability?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Dementia.

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

10. What refers to neurotransmitters that are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise, excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Endorphins.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Atria.

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

12. According to the author in Chapter 6, lack of oxygen to any major organ can induce what?
(a) Obtundation.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Cellular aging.
(d) Shock.

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

14. What was the name of the university hospital where Dr. Nuland worked when James McCarty was admitted?
(a) The Yale-New Haven Hospital.
(b) St. Paul's Hospital.
(c) The Shriner's Hospital.
(d) St. Joseph’s Hospital.

15. What is the number three killer of the elderly, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) Acute infection.
(b) Cellular aging.
(c) Strokes.
(d) AIDS.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the character of Horace Giddens suffer from?

2. What is the first of the seven most common causes of death for 85% of the elderly population, as discussed in Chapter 4?

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

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”?

5. When were electrocardiograms invented?

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