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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 founded the American Red Cross?
(a) Clara Barton.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Peyton Rous.

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) What his happening?
(b) How does this work?
(c) How can I know it?
(d) What is its purpose?

3. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1942.

4. Where did William Maxwell grow up?
(a) Lincoln, Illinois.
(b) Lubbock, Texas.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas.

5. What were the names of the Mayo brothers who were giants in the field of surgery?
(a) Jason and Michael.
(b) Charles and William.
(c) George and Paul.
(d) James and Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when World War I ended?

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

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

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

5. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?

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