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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. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Martin Behrman.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

2. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) George Creel.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

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

4. 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)?
(a) George McCoy.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Louis Howe.
(d) Elias Canetti.

5. 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?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Richard Pearce.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?

2. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?

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

4. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?

5. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?

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