HEALTH LAW AND REGULATION (HSC312)
TEST #1 (CHAPTERS 1-5)
Student Name _____________________________ Date _______________________
Multiple Choice
The multiple choice questions below are designed to test the student’s:
• Knowledge. Here the student is required to recognize or recall specific legal
facts, terminology, classifications, principles, and theories (answers to these
questions do not require reasoning, only remembering the material involved.)
• Comprehension. Here the student is required not only to demonstrate knowledge
about the law but also to demonstrate a degree of understanding of the material
involved in the question. This is accomplished by questions that have more than
one right answer, thus requiring the student to select the best answer.
Chapter 1—Reflections of the Past
1. The first physicians most likely to have used castor oil and peppermint as drugs
were
a. Greek
b. Roman
c. Hindu
d Egyptian
e. French
2. As early as 1134 B.C. these ancient ruins demonstrate evidence that patients
were being treated holistically
a. Greek temple
b. Roman temple
c. Mohammedan asylum
d. Serbian temple
e. Harun hospital
3. The physician who employed the principles of percussion, ausculation, kept
detailed clinical records, and performed numerous surgical procedures was
a. Rhazes
b. Hippocrates
c. Muhammad
d. Bernard
e. Lister
4. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by
a. Dutch merchant
b. Van Leeuwenhook
c. Monks
d. barber surgeons
e. Pasteur
5. Although _______________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to
perfect it.
,a. Van Leeuwenhook
b. Fenwick
c. Lister
d. Pasteur
e. Winston
6. The person who claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever
was due to infection transmitted by students came directly from the dissecting room
to take care of maternity patients
a. Pasteur
b. Morgan
c. Rhazes
d. Nightingale
e. Semmelweis
7. The person often referred to as the first hospital administrator
a. Fenwick
b. Wylie
c. Nightingale
d. Hopkins
e. Einstein
8. The first incorporated hospital in the U.S. was founded in
a. Boston
b. Philadelphia
c. Manhattan
d. Richmond
e. Dallas
9. The discoverer of the X-ray
a. Halstead
b. Whipple
c. McCollum
d. Roentgen
e. Bernard
10. The discoverer of vitamins A and B (which played an important role in the
advancement of medicine of the 20th century)
a. Goldberger
b. McCollum
c. Huldschinsky
d. Finlay
e. Ripman
11. The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine
in the 20th century
a. Einthoven
b. Einstein’
c. Eisenberg
, d. Ernst
e. Martin
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
e. HHS
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
e. Physician
14. Hospitals first appeared in as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine)
a. Egypt
b. Greece
c. Spain
c. Portugal
d. Greenland
15. He introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for
infection control in hospitals
a. Bergmann
b. Konrad
c. McCollum
d. Halstead
e. Lister
16. Produced experimental rickets
a. Wasserman
b. Fenwick
c. Virchow
d. Finlay
e. Belotti
17. Two of the significant influences in the development of surgical procedures
a. carbolic solution and ventilation systems
b. sterilization and cell theory
c. anesthesia and antiseptics
d. anatomy and cell theory
e. vitamins and rickets
18. Showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics
a. Lister
TEST #1 (CHAPTERS 1-5)
Student Name _____________________________ Date _______________________
Multiple Choice
The multiple choice questions below are designed to test the student’s:
• Knowledge. Here the student is required to recognize or recall specific legal
facts, terminology, classifications, principles, and theories (answers to these
questions do not require reasoning, only remembering the material involved.)
• Comprehension. Here the student is required not only to demonstrate knowledge
about the law but also to demonstrate a degree of understanding of the material
involved in the question. This is accomplished by questions that have more than
one right answer, thus requiring the student to select the best answer.
Chapter 1—Reflections of the Past
1. The first physicians most likely to have used castor oil and peppermint as drugs
were
a. Greek
b. Roman
c. Hindu
d Egyptian
e. French
2. As early as 1134 B.C. these ancient ruins demonstrate evidence that patients
were being treated holistically
a. Greek temple
b. Roman temple
c. Mohammedan asylum
d. Serbian temple
e. Harun hospital
3. The physician who employed the principles of percussion, ausculation, kept
detailed clinical records, and performed numerous surgical procedures was
a. Rhazes
b. Hippocrates
c. Muhammad
d. Bernard
e. Lister
4. The writings of Hippocrates were preserved by
a. Dutch merchant
b. Van Leeuwenhook
c. Monks
d. barber surgeons
e. Pasteur
5. Although _______________ did not invent the first microscope, he was able to
perfect it.
,a. Van Leeuwenhook
b. Fenwick
c. Lister
d. Pasteur
e. Winston
6. The person who claimed that the alarming number of deaths from puerperal fever
was due to infection transmitted by students came directly from the dissecting room
to take care of maternity patients
a. Pasteur
b. Morgan
c. Rhazes
d. Nightingale
e. Semmelweis
7. The person often referred to as the first hospital administrator
a. Fenwick
b. Wylie
c. Nightingale
d. Hopkins
e. Einstein
8. The first incorporated hospital in the U.S. was founded in
a. Boston
b. Philadelphia
c. Manhattan
d. Richmond
e. Dallas
9. The discoverer of the X-ray
a. Halstead
b. Whipple
c. McCollum
d. Roentgen
e. Bernard
10. The discoverer of vitamins A and B (which played an important role in the
advancement of medicine of the 20th century)
a. Goldberger
b. McCollum
c. Huldschinsky
d. Finlay
e. Ripman
11. The inventor of the electrocardiograph, which marked the beginning of medicine
in the 20th century
a. Einthoven
b. Einstein’
c. Eisenberg
, d. Ernst
e. Martin
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
e. HHS
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
e. Physician
14. Hospitals first appeared in as aesculapia (named after a god of medicine)
a. Egypt
b. Greece
c. Spain
c. Portugal
d. Greenland
15. He introduced steam sterilization in 1886, which was of great importance for
infection control in hospitals
a. Bergmann
b. Konrad
c. McCollum
d. Halstead
e. Lister
16. Produced experimental rickets
a. Wasserman
b. Fenwick
c. Virchow
d. Finlay
e. Belotti
17. Two of the significant influences in the development of surgical procedures
a. carbolic solution and ventilation systems
b. sterilization and cell theory
c. anesthesia and antiseptics
d. anatomy and cell theory
e. vitamins and rickets
18. Showed that wound healing could be hastened by using antiseptics
a. Lister
