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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall was Robert DeMatteis?
(a) 6'3".
(b) 5’4”.
(c) 6'1".
(d) 5’8”.

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, “The Hippocratic philosophy of medicine declares that nothing should be more important to a physician than” what?
(a) Treating only patients with insurance.
(b) The total curing of a disease.
(c) A continuous study of medicine.
(d) The best interests of the patient.

3. 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.

4. Harold Bliss was how old when he died?
(a) 76.
(b) 92.
(c) 51.
(d) 68.

5. When was The Kingdom of God Is Within You published?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1894.

6. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 225 B.C.
(b) 115 A.D.
(c) 460 B.C.
(d) 650 B.C.

7. The author writes in the Epilogue, “A family grasps at a straw that comes in the form of” what?
(a) “A newspaper article.”
(b) “An urban legend.”
(c) “A statistic.”
(d) “A bible verse.”

8. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?
(a) Plasmid.
(b) Atria.
(c) Embolus.
(d) Hemoglobin.

9. What is Chapter 9’s title in the book?
(a) “Murder and Serenity.”
(b) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”
(c) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(d) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”

10. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in what year?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1975.

11. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a lack of effectiveness or success?
(a) Morality.
(b) Futility.
(c) Mimicry.
(d) Rigidity.

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

13. What individual does the author describe as having lost several friends, colleagues, and a lover to cancer and AIDS in Chapter 9?
(a) John Seidman.
(b) Alois Alzheimer.
(c) Phil Whiting.
(d) Rainer Maria Rilke.

14. What does the Latin phrase “Arsmorendi is ars vivendi” mean?
(a) “Death belongs to life, life belongs to death.”
(b) “The art of dying is the art of living.”
(c) “Some must die so that others may live.”
(d) “Some live to die, others die to live.”

15. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act in the United States, children under what age may not be employed?
(a) 15.
(b) 7.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Robert DeMatteis have?

2. What term from Chapter 7 refers to less than full mental capacity in a medical patient?

3. The average virus is what fraction of the size of the average bacterium?

4. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?

5. What is the first of the three main stages of HIV?

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