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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. From what did Louis Thuillier die?
(a) Brain cancer.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

3. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?
(a) 672,000.
(b) 125,000.
(c) 226,000.
(d) 23,000.

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

5. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?
(a) 50.
(b) 1.
(c) 75.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?

2. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?

3. How old did William Henry Welch turn in 1930?

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

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

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