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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. Where did William Maxwell grow up?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Lubbock, Texas.
(d) Lincoln, Illinois.

2. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The Rockefeller Institute.

3. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
(a) 254,000.
(b) 185,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 634,000.

4. 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?
(a) 82.
(b) 49.
(c) 67.
(d) 34.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Robert Prager born?

2. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?

3. Who founded the American Red Cross?

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

5. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?

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