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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 17 - Part 6: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) What is its purpose?
(b) How does this work?
(c) How can I know it?
(d) What his happening?

2. When was William Henry Welch born?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1899.

3. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?
(a) Lubbock, Texas.
(b) Augusta, Georgia.
(c) Malvern, Pennsylvania.
(d) Roarke, New York.

4. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) 12. million.
(b) 21 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 6 million.

5. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Oswald Avery born?

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

3. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

4. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?

5. How did Colonel Charles Hagadorn die?

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