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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who founded the American Red Cross?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Clara Barton.
(d) Albert Sidney Burleson.

3. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?
(a) Boston.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Portland.
(d) New York.

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

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

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

7. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?
(a) Miasma.
(b) Carcinogens.
(c) Migration.
(d) Amitosis.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 140 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 320 B.C.
(d) 460 B.C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

2. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

3. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

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

5. 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)?

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