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Hippocrates Quiz (Wimp Version 2)

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice at that point and the page will change color to show it is tickled pink.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers (represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions. (4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.

1. Later legends added that Hippocrates (Select two.)
travelled the world studying and teaching medicine 
appeared as a giant figure hovering above Rome during the plague that afflicted that city in AD 165 
healed a Macedonian king who suffered from the pain of love 
cured the king of Persia of old age (by administering poison to him!) 
drove the plague from Athens using a whip made of the hair of Ariadne, princess of Crete, interwoven with three gold threads from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi 
2. The Roman writer Celsus reports that in the IInd century AD, Hippocrates’ putative tomb in Thessaly was considered to be the site of various medical miracles. We may reasonably suspect, given the texts here, that if Hippocrates had he known of this, he would have
been hugely amused, since he thought miracles were superstition and hence funny 
been pleased, since it showed he was being remembered 
been pleased, since it meant that people were being relieved of their misery 
been annoyed, since he thought religious treatments merely delayed realistic treatments while the illness potentially got worse 
been annoyed, since, as he said, he wanted to be known for his thoughts, not for superstitious use of his corpse 
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3. The writings once attributed to Hippocrates are falsely attributed to him (Select two.)
and are a bit suspect, since they are preserved only in Latin translations 
and were actually written by his students in Athens 
and are widely suspected of originating from the stylus of the ever imaginative Plato 
and were originally written by various of his relatives in Cos, many of whom were themselves physicians 
having been composed at various periods and assembled into a collection by an unknown editor in Alexandria in Roman times 
actually date from somewhat earlier in most cases and may not even have been known to him 
include many topics besides medicine, most notably our earliest treatise on the biology of insects 
are considered today to reflect his thought reasonably accurately 
actually seem to come from a wide range of periods, some as early as 800 BC, some as late as AD 450, a span of over a thousand years! 
4. The famous “Hippocratic Oath” is still sworn by medical school graduates today, and is attached to his reading as an appendix. In its traditional form, the new doctors DO NOT swear (Select two.)
to abstain from deleterious or mischievous treatments 
not to perform abortions 
to speed the death of those whose suffering is great and can grow only worse 
by Apollo 
to perform executions only of criminals who confess without having been tortured 
to hold their teacher as dear as their parents 
to teach medicine to their sons 

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Awesomeness Score: The following awesomeness score is a measure of how much guessing you did to get all items right. It is 100 if you got all questions right when you clicked the process button for the first time. It gets proportionately lower if it took more clicks, until it hits 0 if your clicks exceeded the number of questions.



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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
a simple text file of questions using D.K. Jordan's
dubiously original, but publicly accessible
Think Again Quiz Maker
of September 6, 2015.