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

2. According to Dr. Nuland in Chapter 3, the molecules in a living organism are what?
(a) Finite.
(b) Subject to mutation.
(c) Infinite.
(d) Not subject to mutation.

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the fatal process of blood loss, to a degree sufficient to cause death?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Metastasis.
(c) Exsanguination.
(d) Asphyxia.

4. Dr. Nuland relates that cardiac events are what, if discovered soon enough in Chapter 1?
(a) “Officially treatable.”
(b) “Eminently treatable.”
(c) “Technically treatable.”
(d) “Physically treatable.”

5. 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) No longer functioning.
(b) At its weakest.
(c) In overdrive.
(d) At its limit.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what author does the following quote come that opens the Introduction: “… death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to make their exits”?

2. Who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Mankind?

3. The lower chambers of the human heart are referred to by what name?

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

5. When was Researches into the Physical History of Man published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write of the “mystery” and “myth” of death in the Introduction?

2. How treatable are cardiac events, according to the author in Chapter 1?

3. What are the processes universal to dying described by the author in his Introduction?

4. What seven primary causes of death does the author cite for elderly patients in Chapter 4?

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

6. 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?

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

8. What does Dr. Nuland say regarding the bureaucracy of death in Chapter 3?

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

10. How are heart problems and heart disease diagnosed and predicted, according to the author in Chapter 2?

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