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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. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Thomas Kuhn.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

2. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Black fever.
(b) Extraction.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Red fever.

3. When did World War I begin?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1916.

4. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?
(a) Air Force.
(b) Marines.
(c) Army.
(d) Navy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the American Red Cross founded?

2. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?

3. What is the title of Part 1?

4. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?

5. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

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