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

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) How does this work?
(b) How can I know it?
(c) What is its purpose?
(d) What his happening?

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

4. Where was William Henry Welch born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Norfolk, Connecticut.
(c) Lubbock, Texas.
(d) Madison, Wisconsin.

5. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?

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)?

3. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?

4. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

5. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

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