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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. With what university is the Henry Phipps Institute associated?
(a) New York University.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

2. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) William Councilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Elias Canetti.

3. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?
(a) Dante.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Paracelsus.
(d) Gobel.

4. How old did William Henry Welch turn in 1930?
(a) 91.
(b) 75.
(c) 62.
(d) 80.

5. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $4.2 million.
(b) $3.5 million.
(c) $1.3 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

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

3. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?

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

(see the answer key)

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