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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 was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) George Creel.

2. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

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

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)?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

5. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?

2. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

3. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?

4. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

5. When did a German submarine sink the Lusitania?

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