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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. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) How does this work?
(b) How can I know it?
(c) What is its purpose?
(d) What his happening?

2. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) 21 million.
(b) 6 million.
(c) 12. million.
(d) 10 million.

3. From what did Louis Thuillier die?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Brain cancer.
(d) Hanging.

4. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Martin Behrman.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

5. With what university is the Henry Phipps Institute associated?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?

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

3. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?

4. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?

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

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