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?

12
24
36

3. How did the diagram change society?

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

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

Hearing
Vision
Touch

1. What was Nightingale doing before the war?

Managing a hospital
Nursing
Charity work

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
Because there were no hospitals in Crimea
To prevent the Russians from capturing them

4. What happened to Nighingale's secret report?

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

1. How did Nightingale increase national life span?

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

2. How much did she inrease national life expectancy?

By a quarter
By half
By 10 years

3. What did Joseph Bazalgette do?

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

4. Who financed sewers in the home?

Shopkeepers
Landlords
Private companies