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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. 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) 1942.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1919.

2. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.
(b) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.
(c) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.
(d) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.

3. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Scarlet fever.

4. When did World War I begin?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1916.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

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

3. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?

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

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

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