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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a thick wall of muscle separating the right side and the left side of the heart?
(a) The neoplasm.
(b) The septum.
(c) The embolus.
(d) The stigma.

3. The human heart is enclosed in a double-walled protective sac called what?
(a) The pericardium.
(b) The aphasia.
(c) The neoplasm.
(d) The septum.

4. While in the midst of doing his admission paperwork, Dr. Nuland observed James McCarty begin to do what, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Scratch his arms intensely.
(b) Convulse and shout.
(c) Sweat and cry.
(d) Tap his feet rapidly.

5. What refers to systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Microbiology.
(c) Metabolomics.
(d) Pathophysiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. A person’s heart rate does what annually as they age, according to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3?

2. When were electrocardiograms invented?

3. When did the first correctly diagnosed myocardial infarction occur?

4. What does TIA stand for?

5. What refers to the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author begin his Introduction? What does he say of the primary avenues leading to death in this section of the book?

2. How has the determination of death changed over time, according to the author in Chapter 2? What are Dr. Nuland’s conclusions of the determination of death?

3. When did the author encounter James McCarty? How is McCarty depicted in Chapter 1?

4. What is related of Irv Lipsiner in Chapter 1? What was Lipsiner’s medical history?

5. How does the author describe the metabolic changes of aging in Chapter 3?

6. How do the brain and heart change as a person ages, according to the author in Chapter 3?

7. How does the author go about explaining the heart’s functions in Chapter 2?

8. What does Dr. Nuland suggest as the cause for the sense of peace that describes certain individuals who die through severe trauma in Chapter 6?

9. What statistics does Dr. Nuland provide relating to ischemic heart disease in Chapter 1?

10. What does the author beseech of the reader in his Introduction to How We Die?

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