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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 9 - Part 4: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?
(a) 672,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 226,000.
(d) 125,000.

2. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Crawford Gorgas.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

3. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) Alexis Carrel.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

4. What is the title of Part 1?
(a) "The Warriors."
(b) "The Plague."
(c) "The Onset."
(d) "Outbreak."

5. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?

2. 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)?

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

4. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?

5. When did the medical school at the Johns Hopkins University open?

(see the answer key)

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