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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. 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)?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

2. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 776.
(b) 934.
(c) 165.
(d) 423.

3. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Texas.

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

5. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Alexis Carrel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?

3. 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)?

4. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?

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

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