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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) Carl Ludwig.
(b) Thomas H. Huxley.
(c) William Budd.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

2. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Thomas Kuhn.

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

4. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 8 years old.
(c) 6 months old.
(d) 5 years old.

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?

3. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?

4. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?

5. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does pneumonia kill humans?

2. When was Johns Hopkins University founded? Why was it important?

3. How does the author describe American medical education up to the turn of the twentieth century in the Prologue?

4. What is the one purpose of a virus, according to the author?

5. In what ways did bigotry against immigrants arise in 1917-1918?

6. Describe William Henry Welch's medical education.

7. Who was William Gorgas? What was his role in the war?

8. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

9. What aspects of military operations made the 1918 flu more likely to spread?

10. Who was Simon Flexner? What were his greatest achievements?

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