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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. When was the American Red Cross founded?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1881.

2. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

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

5. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?
(a) William Budd.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?

2. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?

3. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

4. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

5. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?

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