ACADEC 2019-20 Social Science

Question 1

who authored The Decameron

Accepted Answer

Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 2

which of the following is not included in the 4 humors

Accepted Answer

green bile

Question 3

what was the longest period of human history, yet the least known?

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 4

Who believed true reality existed in the realm of ideas or forms?

Accepted Answer

Plato

Question 5

What disease did quarantine fail to contain?

Accepted Answer

cholera

Question 6

who became the personal physician of the Roman emperor (Marcus Aurelius)?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 7

Who discovered x-rays?

Accepted Answer

Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 8

what were hospitals in the Arab-Islamic known as during medieval times?

Accepted Answer

bimaristans

Question 9

Who spent much of their career at Baghdad bimaristan?

Accepted Answer

al-Razi

Question 10

Who wrote the De Motu Cordis?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 11

What did all types of medieval universities promote?

Accepted Answer

scholasticism

Question 12

What does the "sacred disease" refer to?

Accepted Answer

epilepsy

Question 13

what did the sphygomomanometer measure?

Accepted Answer

blood pressure

Question 14

what is another name for the 4 elemental fluids

Accepted Answer

humors

Question 15

What kind of bodies did most anatomy studies focus on?

Accepted Answer

normal

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