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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. Who wrote the book Paradise Lost?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) John Milton.

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

3. Who founded the American Red Cross?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Clara Barton.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

4. Where was Oswald Avery born?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Montreal.
(c) Portland.
(d) New Paltz.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

3. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?

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

5. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

(see the answer key)

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