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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. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 40,000.

2. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?
(a) Jacob Henle.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

3. When was William Henry Welch born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1850.

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

5. What is the title of Part 1?
(a) "The Plague."
(b) "Outbreak."
(c) "The Onset."
(d) "The Warriors."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?

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

4. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?

5. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?

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