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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. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?
(a) 20%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 50%.

2. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1798.

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)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Carl Ludwig.

4. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?
(a) 16.
(b) 22.
(c) 52.
(d) 36.

5. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 6,231.
(b) 4,102.
(c) 3,252.
(d) 1,245.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?

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

4. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?

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?

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