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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. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?
(a) 253,000.
(b) 452,000.
(c) 373,000.
(d) 634,000.

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

3. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Yellow fever.

4. When did World War I begin?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1914.

5. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) William Councilman.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?

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

3. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?

4. 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)?

5. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?

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