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

2. 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)?
(a) Paracelsus.
(b) Gobel.
(c) Dante.
(d) Hippocrates.

3. How old did William Henry Welch turn in 1930?
(a) 75.
(b) 91.
(c) 62.
(d) 80.

4. 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) 23,000.
(c) 226,000.
(d) 125,000.

5. When did the medical school at the Johns Hopkins University open?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?

2. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

3. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?

4. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

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

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