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

2. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 16,000.

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

4. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?
(a) Liberty cabbage.
(b) Mixed greens.
(c) Cabbage salad.
(d) Liberty leaves.

5. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?

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

3. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?

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

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

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