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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 6?
(a) "Explosion."
(b) "The Warriors."
(c) "Annihilation."
(d) "The Pestilence."

2. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?
(a) Carcinogens.
(b) Amitosis.
(c) Miasma.
(d) Migration.

3. When did Paul Lewis complete his medical training at Penn?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1899.

4. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?
(a) 10 years in prison.
(b) 5 years in prison.
(c) 15 years in prison.
(d) 20 years in prison.

5. Who studied links between influenza and schizophrenia, publishing a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1926?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Karl Menninger.
(d) Joseph Tumulty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the U.S. population exceed in the year 2004?

2. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?

3. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?

4. Who published the paper “Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types. Induction of Transformation by a Desoxyribonucleic Acid Fraction Isolated from Pneumoccus Type III” (424)?

5. What did the death toll ultimately reach in New York City alone from the Spanish flu pandemic?

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