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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Chapter 22 - Part 8: Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?
(a) October 24, 1918.
(b) March 12, 1918.
(c) September 28, 1918.
(d) October 1, 1918.

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

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

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) George McCoy.

5. Who was the personal physician to Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt during their presidential terms?
(a) Dr. Cary Grayson.
(b) Dr. Samuel Tilden.
(c) Dr. Louis Howe.
(d) Dr. Elias Canetti.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Rupert Blue rise to the position of U.S. Surgeon General?

3. Who borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

4. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?

5. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

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