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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 17 - Part 6: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?
(a) 24-72 hours.
(b) 24-26 hours.
(c) 24 hours.
(d) 12-24 hours.

2. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?
(a) 82.
(b) 34.
(c) 67.
(d) 49.

3. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Peyton Rous.

4. Who wrote the book Paradise Lost?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) John Milton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Henry Welch born?

2. How old did William Henry Welch turn in 1930?

3. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?

4. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

5. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?

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