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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Chapter 22 - Part 8: Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part 7 of the book?
(a) "Explosion."
(b) "The Race."
(c) "The Pestilence."
(d) "The Warriors."

2. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
(a) 185,000.
(b) 634,000.
(c) 254,000.
(d) 23,000.

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

4. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?
(a) Liberty cabbage.
(b) Mixed greens.
(c) Liberty leaves.
(d) Cabbage salad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?

2. Who sent a telegraph to William H. Park to ask his lab to investigate the Spanish flu from the National Research Council's section on medicine?

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

4. What term from Chapter 24 refers to is the clumping of particles?

5. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?

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