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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. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?
(a) June 30, 1918.
(b) March 12, 1918.
(c) September 14, 1918.
(d) October 3, 1918.

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1945.

3. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?
(a) Gobel.
(b) Dante.
(c) Paracelsus.
(d) Hippocrates.

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

5. The author states in Chapter 21 that the process of inflammation involves the release by certain white blood cells of proteins that are called what?
(a) Aminos.
(b) Cytokines.
(c) Ionites.
(d) Hormones.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?

3. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?

4. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

5. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?

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