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

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

3. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil War in combat or from their wounds?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 634,000.
(c) 185,000.
(d) 254,000.

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

5. When WWI bega, there were 140,000 physicians in the United States. How many of them were serving in the army or navy?
(a) 165.
(b) 776.
(c) 934.
(d) 423.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was the launching of the John Hopkins University?

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

3. When was the International Red Cross founded?

4. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one purpose of a virus, according to the author?

2. What was the significant impact that the 1918 flu had on the human immune system?

3. How did the second wave of the 1918 flu differ from the first?

4. Who was William Gorgas? What was his role in the war?

5. Give a brief description of Woodrow Wilson's political career. During what years was he president?

6. Why does the author credit William Henry Welch as being the most influential scientist in the world?

7. Who was Xavier Bichat and for what was he most known?

8. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?

9. Where is the 1918 flu pandemic believed to have originated? How did it originate?

10. What was the most noteworthy aspect of those who were killed by the Spanish flu?

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