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Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 20%.

2. Between June 1 and August 1, 1918, how many British soldiers in France were hit hard enough by the 1918 flu that they could not report to duty?
(a) 342,003.
(b) 109,534.
(c) 674,120.
(d) 200,825.

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

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

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

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

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

8. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1805.

9. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?
(a) 3,200.
(b) 1,400.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,500.

10. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1945.

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

12. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1899.

13. When was the International Red Cross founded?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1888.

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

15. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?

2. 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)?

3. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?

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

5. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?

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