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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. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?
(a) Codeine.
(b) Salversan.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Abutron.

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

3. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?
(a) March 12, 1919.
(b) January 31, 1917.
(c) September 1, 1927.
(d) June 23, 1917.

4. 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) Ionites.
(b) Aminos.
(c) Hormones.
(d) Cytokines.

5. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?
(a) 49.
(b) 34.
(c) 67.
(d) 82.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?

2. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?

3. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?

4. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

5. What is the title of Part 1?

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