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

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

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

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

5. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Thomas H. Huxley.
(d) William Budd.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book Paradise Lost?

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

4. With what university is the Henry Phipps Institute associated?

5. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?

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