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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 Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Crawford Gorgas.

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

3. 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%.

4. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?
(a) William Councilman.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

5. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Red fever.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Black fever.
(d) Extraction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?

3. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?

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

5. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what was Émile Roux most known?

2. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

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

4. Give a brief description of Woodrow Wilson's political career. During what years was he president?

5. Who was Xavier Bichat and for what was he most known?

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

7. What were the conditions like at Camp Devens when the pandemic hit?

8. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?

9. How did the second wave of the 1918 flu differ from the first?

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

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