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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9: Chapter 31 - Part 10: Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Memories of a Catholic Girlhood?
(a) Mary Budd.
(b) Andrea Watts.
(c) Alexis Carrel.
(d) Mary McCarthy.

2. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.
(b) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.
(c) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.
(d) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.

3. How old was Donald Frary when he died from influenza?
(a) 29.
(b) 25.
(c) 62.
(d) 35.

4. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Red fever.
(b) Black fever.
(c) Extraction.
(d) Consumption.

5. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?
(a) 30%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 20%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were referred to as the "Big Four" (286) in Chapter 32?

2. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?

3. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?

4. What book did Katherine Anne Porter publish that included some of her experiences with the Spanish flu?

5. Where was Oswald Avery born?

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