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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?
(a) March 12, 1919.
(b) September 1, 1927.
(c) January 31, 1917.
(d) June 23, 1917.

2. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 16,000.

3. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Black fever.
(b) Extraction.
(c) Red fever.
(d) Consumption.

4. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1894.

5. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1879.

6. What were the names of the Mayo brothers who were giants in the field of surgery?
(a) Jason and Michael.
(b) James and Robert.
(c) Charles and William.
(d) George and Paul.

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

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

9. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?
(a) 23%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 41%.

10. With what university is the Henry Phipps Institute associated?
(a) New York University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

11. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 634,000.
(c) 185,000.
(d) 254,000.

12. Where was Oswald Avery born?
(a) Montreal.
(b) New Paltz.
(c) Portland.
(d) Brooklyn.

13. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) Alexis Carrel.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

14. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?
(a) 452,000.
(b) 634,000.
(c) 253,000.
(d) 373,000.

15. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?

2. When did a German submarine sink the Lusitania?

3. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?

4. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

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

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