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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. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 40,000.
2. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Alexis Carrel.
3. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Thomas Gregory.
(d) Peyton Rous.
4. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) George Creel.
5. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 165.
(b) 934.
(c) 423.
(d) 776.
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. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?
3. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
4. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
5. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the patients of Paul Lewis described in the Prologue? What were their primary symptoms?
2. What led to the founding of Johns Hopkins University?
3. Why was the Postmaster General given special priviliges under the Sedition Act of 1918? What were they?
4. In what ways did bigotry against immigrants arise in 1917-1918?
5. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?
6. Describe the narrative style of the Prologue. From what perspective is it related?
7. Who was Xavier Bichat and for what was he most known?
8. How does the author describe American medical education up to the turn of the twentieth century in the Prologue?
9. What does the term "pathogen" refer to and why is it important in the narrative?
10. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?
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