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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Nobel laureate that pioneered the surgical reattachment of limbs and organ transpantation in 1912?
(a) Alexis Carrel.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

2. Of what German mentor did William Henry Welch say he was "my ideal of a scientific man, accepting nothing upon authority, but putting every scientific theory to the severest test" (51)?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Elias Canetti.

3. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) Martin Behrman.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

4. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?
(a) 119.
(b) 205.
(c) 107.
(d) 59.

5. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?
(a) Executive Order 1248.
(b) Executive Order 5142.
(c) Executive Order 3243.
(d) Executive Order 2594.

6. What was tuberculosis called by laypeople?
(a) Extraction.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Red fever.
(d) Black fever.

7. What was sauerkraut renamed in the U.S. during WWI?
(a) Liberty leaves.
(b) Cabbage salad.
(c) Liberty cabbage.
(d) Mixed greens.

8. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Pneumonia.

9. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1879.

10. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1900.

11. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?
(a) 3,200.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,400.
(d) 500.

12. With what university did the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City come to be associated?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) New York University.

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

14. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?
(a) Salversan.
(b) Abutron.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Codeine.

15. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $3.5 million.
(b) $1.3 million.
(c) $4.2 million.
(d) $2.1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine located?

2. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

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

4. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?

5. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?

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