1. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow fever.

2. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1785.

3. Where was Oswald Avery born?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Portland.
(c) Montreal.
(d) New Paltz.

4. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Peyton Rous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?

3. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?

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

5. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?

(see the answer key)

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