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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Chapter 22 - Part 8: Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part 6?
(a) "The Pestilence."
(b) "Annihilation."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "Explosion."

2. Who was the personal physician to Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt during their presidential terms?
(a) Dr. Louis Howe.
(b) Dr. Cary Grayson.
(c) Dr. Elias Canetti.
(d) Dr. Samuel Tilden.

3. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?
(a) The Rockefeller Institute.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

4. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?
(a) 226,000.
(b) 125,000.
(c) 672,000.
(d) 23,000.

5. What is the title of Part 7 of the book?
(a) "Explosion."
(b) "The Race."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "The Pestilence."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?

2. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?

3. Where did William Maxwell grow up?

4. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

5. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?

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