Florence Nightingale Quiz

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4 questions each on her diagram, her war experience, and her post-war campaign:

1. What new messsage did the diagram show?

Most soldiers died because of bad winter weather
More soldiers died of disease than in battle
Deaths from infectious disease can be reduced

2. How many months are shown on the diagram?

24
36
12

3. How did the diagram change society?

It created the National Health Service
It reduced deaths in the army
It reduced deaths in the army and in civilian life

4 What is the sharpest human sense, for learning new stuff?

Touch
Vision
Hearing

1. What was Nightingale doing before the war?

Charity work
Managing a hospital
Nursing

2. Who convinced her of the need for sanitation?

Farr
McNeill
Simon

3. Why did the army send so many sick to Scutari?

Because Nightingale and her nurses were there
To prevent the Russians from capturing them
Because there were no hospitals in Crimea

4. What happened to Nighingale's secret report?

It was published in the newspapers at the time
It was never written
Nightingale leaked dozens of copies

1. How did Nightingale increase national life span?

By inventing new cures for disease
By making sewers compulsory in all homes
By improving hospital nursing

2. How much did she inrease national life expectancy?

By 10 years
By a quarter
By half

3. What did Joseph Bazalgette do?

Connected all homes to sewers
Invented the toilet
Built sewers that cleaned the Thames

4. Who financed sewers in the home?

Landlords
Private companies
Shopkeepers