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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Part 2: Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1894.

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

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

4. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) Why?
(b) Where?
(c) When?
(d) How?

5. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?

2. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?

3. When was William Henry Welch born?

4. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?

5. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

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