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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 17 - Part 6: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?
(a) Salversan.
(b) Abutron.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Codeine.

2. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) 21 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 6 million.
(d) 12. million.

3. What is the title of Part 1?
(a) "Outbreak."
(b) "The Plague."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "The Onset."

4. Where was Robert Prager born?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

5. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1856.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was William Henry Welch born?

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

4. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

5. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?

(see the answer key)

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