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

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?
(a) Migration.
(b) Amitosis.
(c) Miasma.
(d) Carcinogens.

3. What is the title of Part 1?
(a) "The Onset."
(b) "Outbreak."
(c) "The Plague."
(d) "The Warriors."

4. In 1900 in the United States, how many medical schools required their students to have a college degree for entrance?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 75.
(d) 1.

5. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) William Councilman.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

6. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?
(a) September 12, 1876.
(b) December 12, 1899.
(c) March 14, 1863.
(d) June 12, 1864.

7. How old was William Henry Welch when his mother died?
(a) 5 years old.
(b) 8 years old.
(c) 6 months old.
(d) 2 years old.

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

9. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) New York.
(d) Maryland.

10. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?
(a) 41%.
(b) 23%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 49%.

11. When was the International Red Cross founded?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1919.

12. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(d) Elias Canetti.

13. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) George Creel.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?

2. Who was the Postmaster General at the time the U.S. entered WWI?

3. Where did William Maxwell grow up?

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

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

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