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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did Johns Hopkins die?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1855.
2. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 40,000.
3. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Malaria.
4. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?
(a) How can I know it?
(b) How does this work?
(c) What his happening?
(d) What is its purpose?
5. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1899.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?
2. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?
3. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
4. Who was the first scientist to formulate the modern germ theory?
5. Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Jesse Lazear are described by the author as three of the four doctors who defeated what disease?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the term "pathogen" refer to and why is it important in the narrative?
2. What was the Sedition Act of 1918?
3. Who was Thomas H. Huxley?
4. Give a brief description of Woodrow Wilson's political career. During what years was he president?
5. What was the significant impact that the 1918 flu had on the human immune system?
6. Who was Xavier Bichat and for what was he most known?
7. For what was Émile Roux most known?
8. Why was the Postmaster General given special priviliges under the Sedition Act of 1918? What were they?
9. Who was William Gorgas? What was his role in the war?
10. Who was Oswald Avery and what is he most known for?
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