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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 9 - Part 4: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Alexis Carrel.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) Peyton Rous.

2. In the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, how many British troops died for each combat-related death?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

3. From what did Louis Thuillier die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Brain cancer.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Hanging.

4. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?
(a) Alexis Carrel.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Martin Behrman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

2. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?

3. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?

4. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?

5. 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)?

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