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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. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.
(b) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.
(c) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.
(d) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.

2. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Red fever.
(b) Black fever.
(c) Extraction.
(d) Consumption.

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

4. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $2.1 million.
(b) $4.2 million.
(c) $3.5 million.
(d) $1.3 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

4. Where was William Henry Welch born?

5. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?

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