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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?
(a) Portland.
(b) Boston.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) New York.

2. 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.

3. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) Why?
(b) Where?
(c) How?
(d) When?

4. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 125,000.
(c) 672,000.
(d) 226,000.

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Elias Canetti.

6. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) What is its purpose?
(b) How can I know it?
(c) How does this work?
(d) What his happening?

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

8. When did the medical school at the Johns Hopkins University open?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1893.

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

10. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

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

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

13. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) Thomas H. Huxley.
(b) Carl Ludwig.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) William Budd.

14. Where was William Henry Welch born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Lubbock, Texas.
(c) Madison, Wisconsin.
(d) Norfolk, Connecticut.

15. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Elias Canetti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?

2. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?

3. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

4. What is the title of Part 1?

5. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?

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