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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 Richard Pfeiffer in 1918?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 70.

2. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
(a) The University of California at Berkeley.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Who is the great French physiologist who is quoted in Chapter 22 as saying "Science teaches us to doubt" (274)?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Claude Bernard.

4. Who was Woodrow Wilson's press spokesman during the negotiations after WWI ended?
(a) Joseph Tumulty.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Ray Stannard Baker.
(d) Peyton Rous.

5. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?
(a) 300.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?

2. What ship that was once the pride of the German passenger fleet, had been confiscated by the U.S. undamaged during WWI?

3. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?

4. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?

5. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when World War I ended?

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