1. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

2. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Rockefeller Institute.
(d) Harvard University.

3. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1875.

4. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

5. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Martin Behrman.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?

3. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

4. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

5. On the day that the first Camp Grant soldier died, how many troops boarded a train from Camp Grant for Camp Hancock?

(see the answer key)

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