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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Part 2: Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1866.

2. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
(a) The University of California at Berkeley.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?
(a) Amitosis.
(b) Miasma.
(c) Carcinogens.
(d) Migration.

4. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Jacob Henle.
(d) Elias Canetti.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?

2. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?

3. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?

4. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?

5. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?

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