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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the process by which the ability to grow new cells or perform exchanges in muscle, cells, or molecules becomes impossible?

2. How old was the woman that the author described having operated on for early-stage breast cancer in the Introduction?

3. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?

4. What was the profession of James McCarty?

5. What is described by the author in Chapter 5 as a physician who will investigate a disease by evaluating its origins and symptoms?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Horace Giddens and how is he described by the author?

2. What information does the author relate of stroke fatalities in Chapter 4? Whose assistance does he cite in this chapter?

3. How treatable are cardiac events, according to the author 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 degeneration of his grandmother in Chapter 3?

6. What is a pathophysiologist? How does this relate to etymology, according to the author in Chapter 5?

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

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

9. What medical progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, according to the author in Chapter 5?

10. How does the author describe the progression of Alzheimer’s in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss John Seidman’s experiences with death as discussed in Chapter 9. What did Seidman experience as he lost friends and family to AIDS and cancer? How did he describe the healing process that took place during the deaths of his loved ones? Have you experienced the death of a loved one? If so, how did your experience relate to those of Seidman?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the impact of the electrocardiogram on modern medicine and treatment. What developments have been made in the past 20 years? What other tests are commonly used today to detect heart muscle damage? How effective are each of these diagnostic tests?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the major viruses affecting humankind as well as the discovery of the virus and its components. When was the first virus discovered? How? How do viruses replicate? What are common, nonlethal viruses? What are the most deadly viruses?

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