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

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

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

4. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Johns Hopkins die?

4. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?

5. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?

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