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

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

3. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?
(a) What can I know?
(b) How is this occurring?
(c) Why?
(d) Why is this happening?

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

5. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When did Robert Koch discover the tubercle bacillus?

3. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

4. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

5. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?

(see the answer key)

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