View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?

3. When did a German submarine sink the Lusitania?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe William Henry Welch's medical education.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?

8. How are the patients of Paul Lewis described in the Prologue? What were their primary symptoms?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the transformation of the American medical educational system in the late 1800s. How did the changes come about? Who was responsible for revamping the U.S. medical educational system? What achievements were made in this time?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and career of Rufus Cole. Where was Rufus Cole working when the flu pandemic broke out? What were his responsibilities in relation to the outbreak? What were his achievements?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life and career of Oswald Avery. Where did Avery study? What were his areas of specialty? How was he involved in the fight against the 1918 flu pandemic?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 714 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample