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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. By what title is Hippocrates often referred?
(a) Ancient Rome’s official physician.
(b) The doctor of ancient Greece.
(c) The father of Western medicine.
(d) The ancient witchdoctor.

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, “Death belongs to the dying and” who?
(a) “Those who love them.”
(b) “Those who insure them.”
(c) “Their beneficiaries.”
(d) “God.”

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

4. When did symptoms indicate that Ishmael Garcia’s lungs were infected?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1991.

5. Where was William Osler born?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Ishmael Garcia diagnosed with HIV?

2. What refers to any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria?

3. The author states in the Epilogue, “I am more interested in how a man lives than” what?

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

5. Robert DeMatteis’s determination to not lose what made him stand out in Dr. Nuland’s mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much money goes into the study of HIV, according to the author in Chapter 8? What have been the results of those studies?

2. What is the underlying influence for a person’s capacity for hope when facing terminal disease, according to the author in Chapter 11?

3. According to the author in Chapter 11, what is most often the influencing factor in treating the terminally ill?

4. What case study does the author cite in discussing AIDS and HIV in the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. How do accidents, suicide, and euthanasia differ from other causes of death, according to the author in Chapter 7?

6. How is the progression of AIDS described in Chapter 9?

7. What problems and diseases are associated with those infected with AIDS, according to the author in Chapter 9?

8. What does the author state in regard to the stigma of AIDS and HIV in Chapter 8?

9. What does the author relate regarding one’s quality of life in the Epilogue?

10. How would you characterize the language of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter?

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