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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. Who founded the American Red Cross?
(a) Clara Barton.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

2. On the day that the first Camp Grant soldier died, how many troops boarded a train from Camp Grant for Camp Hancock?
(a) 3,108.
(b) 2,523.
(c) 1,234.
(d) 5,232.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

5. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Red Cross founded?

2. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?

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

4. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

5. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?

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