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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. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

3. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) William Budd.

4. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?
(a) September 28, 1918.
(b) October 1, 1918.
(c) October 24, 1918.
(d) March 12, 1918.

5. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?

2. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?

3. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?

4. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?

5. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?

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