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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. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 320 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 140 B.C.
(d) 460 B.C.

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

3. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) 21 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 12. million.
(d) 6 million.

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

5. 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) 226,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 125,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Part 1?

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

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?

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