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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. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 460 B.C.
(b) 320 B.C.
(c) 140 B.C.
(d) 100 B.C.

2. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 776.
(b) 165.
(c) 934.
(d) 423.

3. What were the names of the Mayo brothers who were giants in the field of surgery?
(a) James and Robert.
(b) Charles and William.
(c) Jason and Michael.
(d) George and Paul.

4. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?

2. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

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

4. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?

5. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?

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