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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. How many people were reported to have died from influenza in Philadelphia on October 5, 1918?
(a) 195.
(b) 625.
(c) 254.
(d) 135.

2. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Red fever.
(c) Black fever.
(d) Extraction.

3. 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) 1,234.
(c) 5,232.
(d) 2,523.

4. How many civilians were admitted to Philadelphia hospitals on September 27, 1918 suffering from influenza?
(a) 53.
(b) 652.
(c) 89.
(d) 123.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

2. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

3. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?

4. With what university is the Henry Phipps Institute associated?

5. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?

(see the answer key)

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