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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. 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 can I know it?
(c) What is its purpose?
(d) How does this work?

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

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

4. When was the International Red Cross founded?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1888.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?

3. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

4. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

5. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?

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