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

2. When was William Henry Welch born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1874.

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

4. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?
(a) Jacob Henle.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Elias Canetti.

5. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) William Councilman.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?

2. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?

3. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

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. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?

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