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?

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

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 and in civilian life
It reduced deaths in the army

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

Touch
Hearing
Vision

1. What was Nightingale doing before the war?

Charity work
Nursing
Managing a hospital

2. Who convinced her of the need for sanitation?

Farr
Simon
McNeill

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

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

4. What happened to Nighingale's secret report?

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

1. How did Nightingale increase national life span?

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

2. How much did she inrease national life expectancy?

By a quarter
By half
By 10 years

3. What did Joseph Bazalgette do?

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

4. Who financed sewers in the home?

Landlords
Private companies
Shopkeepers