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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. Where was Oswald Avery born?
(a) New Paltz.
(b) Montreal.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Portland.

2. When was the International Red Cross founded?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1888.

3. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?
(a) October 24, 1918.
(b) September 28, 1918.
(c) March 12, 1918.
(d) October 1, 1918.

4. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?
(a) 10 years in prison.
(b) 15 years in prison.
(c) 5 years in prison.
(d) 20 years in prison.

5. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?
(a) The Winters Anderson Naval Training Station.
(b) The Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
(c) The Abrasia Naval Training Station.
(d) The Cordon Wells Naval Training Station.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

2. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?

3. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?

4. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?

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

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