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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 9 - Part 4: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

2. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $4.2 million.
(b) $1.3 million.
(c) $2.1 million.
(d) $3.5 million.

3. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1871.

4. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Peyton Rous.

5. When was the American Red Cross founded?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1881.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the American Red Cross?

2. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?

3. When did World War I begin?

4. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?

5. Between June 1 and August 1, 1918, how many British soldiers in France were hit hard enough by the 1918 flu that they could not report to duty?

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