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

2. What is the title of Part 5 of the book?
(a) "Resolution."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "New Science."
(d) "The Warriors."

3. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1856.

4. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 934.
(b) 776.
(c) 165.
(d) 423.

5. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?

2. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?

3. Where was Charles-Edward Winslow working as an epidemiologist and professor when the 1918 outbreak occurred?

4. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?

5. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?

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