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
More soldiers died of disease than in battle
Most soldiers died because of bad winter weather

2. How many months are shown on the diagram?

24
36
12

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?

Vision
Touch
Hearing

1. What was Nightingale doing before the war?

Managing a hospital
Charity work
Nursing

2. Who convinced her of the need for sanitation?

Farr
McNeill
Simon

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?

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

1. How did Nightingale increase national life span?

By improving hospital nursing
By making sewers compulsory in all homes
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?

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

4. Who financed sewers in the home?

Private companies
Shopkeepers
Landlords