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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?
(a) Maryland.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

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

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

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

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

7. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?
(a) 20%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 50%.

8. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1902.

9. 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)?
(a) Carl Ludwig.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

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

11. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $1.3 million.
(b) $4.2 million.
(c) $2.1 million.
(d) $3.5 million.

12. 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) Paracelsus.
(b) Hippocrates.
(c) Gobel.
(d) Dante.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?

2. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

3. Who founded the American Red Cross?

4. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?

5. How old did William Henry Welch turn in 1930?

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