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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

2. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1899.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Gobel.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Paracelsus.
(d) Dante.

5. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Crawford Gorgas.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Rupert Blue.

6. When was the American Red Cross founded?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1919.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Where was William Henry Welch born?
(a) Madison, Wisconsin.
(b) Norfolk, Connecticut.
(c) Lubbock, Texas.
(d) New York, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

2. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?

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

4. What is the title of Part 1?

5. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?

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