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?

More soldiers died of disease than in battle
Most soldiers died because of bad winter weather
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
It created the National Health Service
It reduced deaths in the army and in civilian life

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

Touch
Hearing
Vision

1. What was Nightingale doing before the war?

Managing a hospital
Nursing
Charity work

2. Who convinced her of the need for sanitation?

McNeill
Simon
Farr

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

Because there were no hospitals in Crimea
Because Nightingale and her nurses were there
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 making sewers compulsory in all homes
By improving hospital nursing
By inventing new cures for disease

2. How much did she inrease national life expectancy?

By a quarter
By 10 years
By half

3. What did Joseph Bazalgette do?

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

4. Who financed sewers in the home?

Landlords
Private companies
Shopkeepers