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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.
(d) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.

2. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?
(a) Partial immunity.
(b) Passive immunity.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Integral immunity.

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

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

5. When did World War I begin?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1914.

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

7. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?
(a) Liberty cabbage.
(b) Mixed greens.
(c) Liberty leaves.
(d) Cabbage salad.

8. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Typhoid fever.

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

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

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

12. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

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

14. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Thomas Gregory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

2. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?

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

4. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?

5. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?

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