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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?
(a) 107.
(b) 205.
(c) 119.
(d) 59.

5. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?
(a) Why is this happening?
(b) Why?
(c) How is this occurring?
(d) What can I know?

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

7. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) William Councilman.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

8. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) George Creel.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

9. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
(a) The University of California at Berkeley.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Michigan.

10. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Peyton Rous.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Martin Behrman.

11. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

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

13. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kansas.

14. When did Robert Koch discover the tubercle bacillus?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1855.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

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. 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)?

5. When did World War I begin?

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