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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The first physicians most likely to have used castor oil and peppermint as drugs were:
A) Greeks.
B) Romans.
C) Hindus.
D) Egyptians.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Egyptian Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 2
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
2. As early as 1134 B.C., these ancient ruins demonstrate evidence that patients were being treated
holistically in:
A) Greek temples.
B) Roman temples.
C) Mohammedan asylums.
D) Serbian temples.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
Subject: chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
3. __________ employed the principles of percussion, auscultation, kept detailed clinical records, and
performed numerous surgical procedures.
A) Rhazes
B) Hippocrates
C) Muhammad
D) Bernard
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
,Subject: Chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
4. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by:
A) Dutch merchants.
B) Van Leeuwenhoek.
C) Monks.
D) barber surgeons.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: The Dark Age of Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 6
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
5. Although __________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to perfect it.
A) Van Leeuwenhoek
B) Fenwick
C) Lister
D) Pasteur
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Hospitals of the 18th century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
6. The person who claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever was due to infection
transmitted by students who came directly from the dissecting room to take care of maternity patients
was:
A) Pasteur.
B) Morgan.
C) Rhazes.
D) Semmelweis.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
7. __________ is often referred to as the first hospital administrator.
A) Bedford Fenwick
B) W. G. Wylie
C) Florence Nightingale
D) John Hopkins
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
,8. The first incorporated hospital in the United States was founded in:
A) Boston.
B) Philadelphia.
C) Manhattan.
D) Richmond.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
9. __________ is credited with the discovery of the X-ray.
A) Halstead
B) Whipple
C) McCollum
D) Roentgen
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
10. The discoverer of vitamins A and B (which played an important role in the advancement of medicine
of the 20th century) is credited to:
A) Goldberger
B) McCollum
C) Huldschinsky
D) Finlay
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
11. The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine in the 20th century, is
credited to whom?
A) Einthoven
B) Einstein
C) Eisenberg
D) Ernst
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
,12. Reform in medical education early in the 20th century was due to:
A) hospital administrators.
B) standardization.
C) National League of Nursing.
D) Council on Medical Education and Hospitals.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
13. With the goal of providing the best professional, scientific, and humanitarian care possible, the focus
of efforts in hospital standardization was the:
A) Whipple.
B) patient.
C) nurse.
D) nurses and physicians.
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
14. Hospitals first appeared in as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine) in:
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Spain
D) Greenland
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
Subject: Chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
15. __________ introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for infection
control in hospitals.
A) Bergmann
B) Konrad
C) McCollum
D) Halstead
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
16. __________ produced experimental rickets.
,A) Wasserman
B) Fenwick
C) Virchow
D) Finlay
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
17. Two of the significant influences in the development of surgical procedures were:
A) carbolic solution and ventilation systems.
B) sterilization and cell theory.
C) anesthesia and antiseptics.
D) anatomy and cell theory.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
18. __________ showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics.
A) Lister
B) Halstead
C) Pasteur
D) Semmelweis
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
19. __________ was the first hospital where anesthesia was first publicly demonstrated in 1846.
A) John Hopkins Hospital
B) Pennsylvania Hospital
C) New York Hospital
D) Massachusetts General Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1, page 8
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
20. Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the __________ on March 23, 2010. The
legislation is designed to ensure that more Americans receive healthcare benefits.
A) National Insurance
B) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
C) Obama Care
,D) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Care in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 16
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
21. __________ published a book in 1775 describing frightful conditions existing in hospitals.
A) John Jones
B) Thomas Bond
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) William Penn
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Hospitals of the 18th Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
22. In 1918, the American College of Surgeons drew up a “constitution” for hospitals setting forth the
requirements for the care of the sick. This document was known as the:
A) minimum standard.
B) strict liability doctrine.
C) medical practice standards.
D) national health insurance.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
23. The primary function of a hospital is to provide:
A) a work environment for professional staff.
B) shelter for the unhoused.
C) laboratories to conduct research.
D) a place to care for the sick and injured.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: History Challenges Us to Do Better
Subject: Chapter 1, page 17
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
24. The scope of services provided by a hospital __________.
A) remains constant
B) is in a continuing state of change
C) has been pre-established
D) has been shrinking over the past 50 years
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
,Ahead: Ahead
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
25. The American College of Surgeons was founded in 1913 under the leadership of:
A) Carlos Finlay.
B) August Von Wasserman.
C) Casimir.
D) Franklin H. Martin.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
26. The first American nursing school was established in 1872 at which hospital?
A) Roosevelt Hospital
B) Bellevue Hospital
C) Sinai Hospital
D) Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
27. Engraved on a limestone pillar dating back to the Sumerians (2920 B.C.) are pictures of the:
A) Mohammedan hospitals.
B) assemblage of wounded soldiers.
C) various physical ailments.
D) Socrates.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Military Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 4
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
28. The hospital that was most likely typical of the better hospitals of the Middle Ages was:
A) London University Hospital.
B) New London.
C) Hotel-Dieu of Paris.
D) Winston.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Medieval Hospitals
Subject: chapter 1, page 5
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
, 29. The first psychiatric hospital founded in the United States was located in which place?
A) Norfolk, VA.
B) Richmond, VA.
C) Williamsburg, VA.
D) New York, NY.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 8
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
30. A dentist who developed sulfuric ether and arranged for the first hospital operation under anesthesia
was:
A) W.T.G. Morgan.
B) Dr. Nathan Smith Davis.
C) Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
D) Crawford Long.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
31. At the beginning of the 21st century, approximately __________ Americans do not have health
insurance
A) 148 million
B) 49 million
C) 46,000 thousand
D) 28,000 million
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Health Care in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 16
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
32. __________ is the first state to begin a court room battle with national health insurance.
A) California
B) New York
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Ahead
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
Fourth Edition Pozgar
Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
Quizzes, Midterm and final exams are included (if available in the original resources).
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
✅ Why Buy From Us?
📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
⚡ Instant digital delivery – get your file the moment you pay, no waiting.
📅 Always up to date – we track new editions so you always get the latest version.
💬 Friendly support – real humans ready to help, anytime you need us.
🔒 Safe & secure – thousands of satisfied students trust us every semester.
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💰 Money-Back Guarantee: Not satisfied? We offer a full refund – no questions asked.
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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The first physicians most likely to have used castor oil and peppermint as drugs were:
A) Greeks.
B) Romans.
C) Hindus.
D) Egyptians.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Egyptian Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 2
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
2. As early as 1134 B.C., these ancient ruins demonstrate evidence that patients were being treated
holistically in:
A) Greek temples.
B) Roman temples.
C) Mohammedan asylums.
D) Serbian temples.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
Subject: chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
3. __________ employed the principles of percussion, auscultation, kept detailed clinical records, and
performed numerous surgical procedures.
A) Rhazes
B) Hippocrates
C) Muhammad
D) Bernard
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
,Subject: Chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
4. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by:
A) Dutch merchants.
B) Van Leeuwenhoek.
C) Monks.
D) barber surgeons.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: The Dark Age of Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 6
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
5. Although __________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to perfect it.
A) Van Leeuwenhoek
B) Fenwick
C) Lister
D) Pasteur
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Hospitals of the 18th century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
6. The person who claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever was due to infection
transmitted by students who came directly from the dissecting room to take care of maternity patients
was:
A) Pasteur.
B) Morgan.
C) Rhazes.
D) Semmelweis.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
7. __________ is often referred to as the first hospital administrator.
A) Bedford Fenwick
B) W. G. Wylie
C) Florence Nightingale
D) John Hopkins
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
,8. The first incorporated hospital in the United States was founded in:
A) Boston.
B) Philadelphia.
C) Manhattan.
D) Richmond.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
9. __________ is credited with the discovery of the X-ray.
A) Halstead
B) Whipple
C) McCollum
D) Roentgen
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
10. The discoverer of vitamins A and B (which played an important role in the advancement of medicine
of the 20th century) is credited to:
A) Goldberger
B) McCollum
C) Huldschinsky
D) Finlay
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
11. The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine in the 20th century, is
credited to whom?
A) Einthoven
B) Einstein
C) Eisenberg
D) Ernst
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
,12. Reform in medical education early in the 20th century was due to:
A) hospital administrators.
B) standardization.
C) National League of Nursing.
D) Council on Medical Education and Hospitals.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
13. With the goal of providing the best professional, scientific, and humanitarian care possible, the focus
of efforts in hospital standardization was the:
A) Whipple.
B) patient.
C) nurse.
D) nurses and physicians.
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
14. Hospitals first appeared in as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine) in:
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Spain
D) Greenland
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Greek and Roman Hospital
Subject: Chapter 1, page 3
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
15. __________ introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for infection
control in hospitals.
A) Bergmann
B) Konrad
C) McCollum
D) Halstead
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
16. __________ produced experimental rickets.
,A) Wasserman
B) Fenwick
C) Virchow
D) Finlay
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 12
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
17. Two of the significant influences in the development of surgical procedures were:
A) carbolic solution and ventilation systems.
B) sterilization and cell theory.
C) anesthesia and antiseptics.
D) anatomy and cell theory.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
18. __________ showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics.
A) Lister
B) Halstead
C) Pasteur
D) Semmelweis
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 10
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
19. __________ was the first hospital where anesthesia was first publicly demonstrated in 1846.
A) John Hopkins Hospital
B) Pennsylvania Hospital
C) New York Hospital
D) Massachusetts General Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Early Hospitals in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1, page 8
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
20. Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the __________ on March 23, 2010. The
legislation is designed to ensure that more Americans receive healthcare benefits.
A) National Insurance
B) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
C) Obama Care
,D) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Care in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 16
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
21. __________ published a book in 1775 describing frightful conditions existing in hospitals.
A) John Jones
B) Thomas Bond
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) William Penn
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Hospitals of the 18th Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 7
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
22. In 1918, the American College of Surgeons drew up a “constitution” for hospitals setting forth the
requirements for the care of the sick. This document was known as the:
A) minimum standard.
B) strict liability doctrine.
C) medical practice standards.
D) national health insurance.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
23. The primary function of a hospital is to provide:
A) a work environment for professional staff.
B) shelter for the unhoused.
C) laboratories to conduct research.
D) a place to care for the sick and injured.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: History Challenges Us to Do Better
Subject: Chapter 1, page 17
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
24. The scope of services provided by a hospital __________.
A) remains constant
B) is in a continuing state of change
C) has been pre-established
D) has been shrinking over the past 50 years
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
,Ahead: Ahead
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
25. The American College of Surgeons was founded in 1913 under the leadership of:
A) Carlos Finlay.
B) August Von Wasserman.
C) Casimir.
D) Franklin H. Martin.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: 20th-Century Progress
Subject: Chapter 1, page 13
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
26. The first American nursing school was established in 1872 at which hospital?
A) Roosevelt Hospital
B) Bellevue Hospital
C) Sinai Hospital
D) Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
27. Engraved on a limestone pillar dating back to the Sumerians (2920 B.C.) are pictures of the:
A) Mohammedan hospitals.
B) assemblage of wounded soldiers.
C) various physical ailments.
D) Socrates.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Military Hospitals
Subject: Chapter 1, page 4
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
28. The hospital that was most likely typical of the better hospitals of the Middle Ages was:
A) London University Hospital.
B) New London.
C) Hotel-Dieu of Paris.
D) Winston.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Medieval Hospitals
Subject: chapter 1, page 5
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
, 29. The first psychiatric hospital founded in the United States was located in which place?
A) Norfolk, VA.
B) Richmond, VA.
C) Williamsburg, VA.
D) New York, NY.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 8
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
30. A dentist who developed sulfuric ether and arranged for the first hospital operation under anesthesia
was:
A) W.T.G. Morgan.
B) Dr. Nathan Smith Davis.
C) Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
D) Crawford Long.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Late 19th Century Renaissance
Subject: Chapter 1, page 9
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
31. At the beginning of the 21st century, approximately __________ Americans do not have health
insurance
A) 148 million
B) 49 million
C) 46,000 thousand
D) 28,000 million
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Health Care in the 21st Century
Subject: Chapter 1, page 16
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
32. __________ is the first state to begin a court room battle with national health insurance.
A) California
B) New York
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Ahead
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Hospitals Through the Ages
