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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. How old was Robert DeMatteis, as described in Chapter 11?
(a) 49.
(b) 56.
(c) 63.
(d) 38.

2. What does PCOD stand for in the text?
(a) Primary cause of dementia.
(b) Primary cause of disease.
(c) Primary cause of death.
(d) Primary cause of distress.

3. What is the third of the three main stages of HIV?
(a) Myocardial infarction.
(b) Clinical Latency.
(c) Acute infection.
(d) AIDS.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was written in Robert DeMatteis’s epitaph, according to the author in Chapter 11?

2. What refers to knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application?

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

4. Who discovered and studied the tobacco mosaic virus in 1892?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author state regarding dignity in death in the Epilogue?

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

3. How are viruses spread? What does the author use as an example in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

7. What author does Dr. Nuland cite in Chapter 12? Why?

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

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

10. What article by Percival Pott is described in Chapter 10? What does Dr. Nuland conclude regarding the article?

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