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

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

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

4. 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)?
(a) Paracelsus.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Gobel.
(d) Dante.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?

2. When did Robert Koch discover the tubercle bacillus?

3. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?

4. When did Johns Hopkins die?

5. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?

(see the answer key)

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