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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. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?
(a) 52.
(b) 19.
(c) 23.
(d) 46.

2. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $2.1 million.
(b) $1.3 million.
(c) $4.2 million.
(d) $3.5 million.

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

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

5. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?
(a) Executive Order 3243.
(b) Executive Order 1248.
(c) Executive Order 2594.
(d) Executive Order 5142.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?

2. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?

3. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?

4. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?

5. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?

(see the answer key)

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