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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9: Chapter 31 - Part 10: Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow fever.

2. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) Maryland.
(d) New York.

3. Where did William Maxwell grow up?
(a) Lincoln, Illinois.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Lubbock, Texas.

4. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?
(a) 59.
(b) 119.
(c) 205.
(d) 107.

5. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?
(a) March 14, 1863.
(b) September 12, 1876.
(c) December 12, 1899.
(d) June 12, 1864.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?

3. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

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

5. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?

(see the answer key)

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