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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. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

2. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Thomas H. Huxley.

3. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

4. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?
(a) 59.
(b) 119.
(c) 205.
(d) 107.

5. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Rupert Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?

2. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?

3. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

4. 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)?

5. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?

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