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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. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
(a) 185,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 634,000.
(d) 254,000.

2. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1899.

3. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?
(a) Maine.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

4. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Martin Behrman.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?

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

5. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

(see the answer key)

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