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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9: Chapter 31 - Part 10: Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Black fever.
(b) Red fever.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Extraction.

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1945.

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?
(a) George McCoy.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Louis Howe.

4. Where did William Welch go for part of his recuperation in Atlantic City?
(a) Hotel Dennis.
(b) Hotel Monmarte.
(c) The Four Corners.
(d) Hotel Devonshire.

5. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?
(a) 5 years old.
(b) 6 months old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 2 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part 6?

2. How many people died in Philadelphia on October 1, 1918?

3. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?

4. When was the International Red Cross founded?

5. Who published the paper “Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types. Induction of Transformation by a Desoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumoccus Type III” (424)?

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