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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When was William Henry Welch born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1874.

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

9. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Jacob Henle.
(d) Elias Canetti.

10. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?
(a) March 14, 1863.
(b) December 12, 1899.
(c) June 12, 1864.
(d) September 12, 1876.

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

12. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) Alexis Carrel.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?

3. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?

4. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?

5. When did World War I begin?

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