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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Part 2: Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 1.

2. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Thomas Kuhn.

3. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Thomas H. Huxley.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) William Budd.

4. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1860.

5. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) Where?
(b) When?
(c) Why?
(d) How?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?

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

4. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

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

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