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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 Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Martin Behrman.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

2. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?
(a) How is this occurring?
(b) Why?
(c) Why is this happening?
(d) What can I know?

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

4. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
(a) The University of California at Berkeley.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Yale University.

5. 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) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Thomas Kuhn.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were the first cases of the 1918 flu discovered in the U.S.?

3. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the significant impact that the 1918 flu had on the human immune system?

2. What does the term "pathogen" refer to and why is it important in the narrative?

3. Who was Thomas H. Huxley?

4. What led to the founding of Johns Hopkins University?

5. Where is the 1918 flu pandemic believed to have originated? How did it originate?

6. When was the American Red Cross founded? What was its mission?

7. What are the estimated death toll number from the 1918 flu pandemic?

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

9. For what was Émile Roux most known?

10. Why does the author credit William Henry Welch as being the most influential scientist in the world?

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