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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. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Malaria.

2. When did Robert Koch discover the tubercle bacillus?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1895.

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

4. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) Where?
(b) When?
(c) Why?
(d) How?

5. Who wrote the book Paradise Lost?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Elias Canetti.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?

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

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

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

5. What is the title of Part 1?

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