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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. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1876.

3. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) Martin Behrman.

4. 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) $4.2 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

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

6. From what did Louis Thuillier die?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Brain cancer.

7. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?
(a) Air Force.
(b) Marines.
(c) Army.
(d) Navy.

8. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1860.

9. Where did William Maxwell grow up?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Lubbock, Texas.
(d) Lincoln, Illinois.

10. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.
(b) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.
(c) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.
(d) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.

11. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?
(a) Salversan.
(b) Abutron.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Codeine.

12. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

13. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?
(a) 1.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 10.

14. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 776.
(b) 934.
(c) 423.
(d) 165.

15. Who founded the American Red Cross?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Clara Barton.
(d) Peyton Rous.

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

3. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?

4. When was William Henry Welch born?

5. When did the medical school at the Johns Hopkins University open?

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