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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Leo Tolstoy from?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) Spain.
(d) Russia.

2. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) James Cowles Prichard.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) William Caxton.
(d) Dr. Kennith Ring.

3. The author states in the Epilogue, “I am more interested in how a man lives than” what?
(a) “How an animal lives.”
(b) “How a star dies.”
(c) “How a plant lives.”
(d) “How a plant dies.”

4. The author asserts in the Epilogue, “Between the lines of this book lies an unspoken plea for the resurrection of” what?
(a) “Healthy living.
(b) “Prayer as medicine.”
(c) “The family doctor.”
(d) “Natural medicine.”

5. What autobiography did Lewis Thomas publish?
(a) Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital.
(b) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
(c) The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher.
(d) Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers.

6. How many children did Ishmael Garcia have?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

7. What was written in Robert DeMatteis’s epitaph, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) And it was always said of him that he would give you the shirt off his back.
(b) And it was always said of him that he loved all children.
(c) And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well.
(d) And it was always said of him that he was the nicest man you could ever meet.

8. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?
(a) Exsanguination.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Cardiogenic shock.
(d) Dementia.

9. What refers to any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria?
(a) Bacteriophage.
(b) Ventricles.
(c) Lymphocyte.
(d) Endorphins.

10. 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?
(a) Metabolomics.
(b) Obtundation.
(c) Metastasis.
(d) Acute infection.

11. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?
(a) Endorphins.
(b) Bacteriophage.
(c) Lymphocyte.
(d) Ventricles.

12. What are the most common neurological problems associated with HIV?
(a) AIDS dementia and toxoplasmosis.
(b) Chronic depression and anxiety disorders.
(c) Advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
(d) Schizophrenia and depression.

13. What word from Chapter 10 refers to any abnormal new growth of tissue, or tumor?
(a) Embolus.
(b) Aphasia.
(c) Pandemic.
(d) Neoplasm.

14. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1927.

15. What is a common refrain of doctors and nurses in the treatment of the terminally ill, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) “Treat the family and the patient.”
(b) “Treat the patient. Not the disease.”
(c) “Because I believed he would live.”
(d) “Because I didn't want to take away his only hope.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. Virology is a sub-specialty of what scientific study?

3. What is the title of Chapter 11?

4. According to the author in Chapter 12, “The Hippocratic philosophy of medicine declares that nothing should be more important to a physician than” what?

5. What individual does the author describe as having lost several friends, colleagues, and a lover to cancer and AIDS in Chapter 9?

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