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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 was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

2. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?
(a) 23%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 49%.

3. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) Where?
(b) Why?
(c) When?
(d) How?

4. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

5. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Thomas Gregory.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?

2. Where was Oswald Avery born?

3. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

5. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?

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