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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. 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) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1936.

2. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?
(a) The Winters Anderson Naval Training Station.
(b) The Abrasia Naval Training Station.
(c) The Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
(d) The Cordon Wells Naval Training Station.

3. How old was Richard Pfeiffer in 1918?
(a) 70.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 40.

4. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Albert Sidney Burleson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?

2. What is the title of Part 1?

3. What refers to a mathematical concept that states that an extreme event if likely to be followed by a less extreme event?

4. The author states in Chapter 21 that the process of inflammation involves the release by certain white blood cells of proteins that are called what?

5. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?

(see the answer key)

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