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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. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1919.

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) What his happening?
(b) What is its purpose?
(c) How does this work?
(d) How can I know it?

3. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Albert Sidney Burleson.

4. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 320 B.C.
(b) 140 B.C.
(c) 460 B.C.
(d) 100 B.C.

5. In what kind of test are bacteria "stained with crystal violet, treated with iodine, washed with alcohol, and then stained again with a contrasting dye" (298)?
(a) The Ross test.
(b) The Boyle test.
(c) The Gram test.
(d) The Pfeiffer test.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What symptom of the 1918 flu refers to a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood?

3. When did Park create the Laboratory for Special Therapy and Investigation in rival to the Rockefeller Institute?

4. Outside of what city was Camp Grant located, according to the author in Chapter 18?

5. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?

(see the answer key)

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