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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 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) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Thomas Kuhn.

2. When did Robert Koch discover the tubercle bacillus?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1882.

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

4. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.
(b) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.
(c) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.
(d) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.

5. Where did Franklin Mall earn his medical degree?
(a) The University of California at Berkeley.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) The University of Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of the Mayo brothers who were giants in the field of surgery?

2. When was William Henry Welch born?

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

4. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

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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