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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 9 - Part 4: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) William Councilman.

2. Between June 1 and August 1, 1918, how many British soldiers in France were hit hard enough by the 1918 flu that they could not report to duty?
(a) 109,534.
(b) 200,825.
(c) 674,120.
(d) 342,003.

3. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?
(a) 107.
(b) 119.
(c) 205.
(d) 59.

4. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?
(a) New York University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) William Budd.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did World War I begin?

2. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?

3. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?

4. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

5. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?

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