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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 was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Martin Behrman.

2. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Crawford Gorgas.

4. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?
(a) 672,000.
(b) 226,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 125,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the medical school at the Johns Hopkins University open?

3. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

4. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

5. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?

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