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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9: Chapter 31 - Part 10: Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Part 10?
(a) "The Tolling of the Bell."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "Endgame."
(d) "The Warriors."

2. Who was Woodrow Wilson's chief of staff during the negotiations at the end of WWI?
(a) Joseph Tumulty.
(b) Alexis Carrel.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Budd.

3. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?
(a) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(b) The Rocky Mountain News.
(c) The San Jose Chronicle.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

4. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 934.
(b) 165.
(c) 776.
(d) 423.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?

3. Who wrote War of the Worlds?

4. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?

5. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?

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