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  • 1. What is the status of the terms 'innate' and 'subluxation' within the chiropractic community?
A) They have been universally defined by law.
B) They are considered outdated and no longer used.
C) There is continued disagreement over their meanings.
D) They refer strictly to anatomical structures without ambiguity.
  • 2. What is the nature of 'Innate Intelligence' in chiropractic?
A) A mathematical formula for spinal alignment.
B) A medical term for immune response.
C) A proven neurological theory.
D) A faith-based, unscientific belief.
  • 3. Historically, why were many chiropractors opposed to vaccination?
A) They believed in the superiority of natural immunity only.
B) Vaccines were not available to them.
C) They were prohibited from doing so by law.
D) They believed all diseases were traceable to causes in the spine.
  • 4. What stance did D.D. Palmer take on inoculation?
A) He was a strong advocate for public vaccination.
B) He claimed vaccines caused spinal subluxations.
C) He called it the height of absurdity to use filthy animal poison.
D) He believed vaccines should only be used for smallpox.
  • 5. How do some chiropractors currently view water fluoridation?
A) As a primary treatment for spinal misalignment.
B) As a scientific intervention supported by all chiropractic groups.
C) As incompatible with chiropractic philosophy and an infringement of personal freedom.
D) As a mandatory health requirement for all patients.
  • 6. When was the AMA's 'Committee on Quackery' created?
A) November 2, 1963.
B) August 12, 1961.
C) January 1, 1975.
D) September 25, 1987.
  • 7. What was a primary goal of the AMA's 'Committee on Quackery'?
A) To contain and eliminate chiropractic.
B) To integrate chiropractic into hospitals.
C) To fund research into spinal manipulation.
D) To standardize chiropractic education.
  • 8. What was the role of 'Sore Throat' in the history of the chiropractic-AMA conflict?
A) An anonymous source who leaked information about the Committee on Quackery.
B) A nickname for a leading chiropractor.
C) The attorney who represented the AMA.
D) A medical doctor who advocated for chiropractic.
  • 9. What was the outcome of the Wilk et al. vs. AMA lawsuit?
A) The lawsuit was dismissed due to lack of evidence.
B) Chiropractic was officially classified as a cult by the court.
C) The AMA was found to have engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade.
D) The AMA was ordered to pay for chiropractic training.
  • 10. When did the B.J. Palmer Research Clinic begin testing chiropractic theories?
A) 1961.
B) 1975.
C) 1983.
D) 1935.
  • 11. What was the function of the medical division in the B.J. Palmer Research Clinic?
A) To establish a medical diagnosis before treatment.
B) To perform surgeries on patients.
C) To administer spinal adjustments.
D) To promote public health programs.
  • 12. What was the 'HIO' technique developed by B.J. Palmer?
A) High Intensity Osteopathy.
B) Health Improvement Operation.
C) Human Integrated Orthopedics.
D) Hole In One (adjustment of only the atlas).
  • 13. What did Samuel Homola propose regarding chiropractic?
A) It should abandon all physical manipulation.
B) It should merge completely with medical doctors.
C) It should focus on conservative care of musculoskeletal conditions.
D) It should focus exclusively on neurological testing.
  • 14. When was the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) launched?
A) 1995.
B) 1987.
C) 1963.
D) 1978.
  • 15. Who identified a 1983 JMPT commentary as the birth of chiropractic as a science?
A) Joseph C. Keating, Jr.
B) Chester Wilk.
C) Samuel Homola.
D) Simon Singh.
  • 16. Why was Simon Singh sued for libel in 2008?
A) For conducting unauthorized clinical trials.
B) For criticizing the activities of the British Chiropractic Association.
C) For calling chiropractic a pseudoscience.
D) For exposing medical trust practices.
  • 17. What was the eventual outcome of the libel suit involving Simon Singh?
A) The British Chiropractic Association withdrew its suit in 2010.
B) Simon Singh was fined by the Royal Courts of Justice.
C) The judge ruled that chiropractic was a bogus treatment.
D) The case was transferred to the European Court of Human Rights.
  • 18. In what year did D.D. Palmer theorize that nerves control health?
A) 1913
B) 1914
C) 1910
D) 1911
  • 19. What was the official cause of D.D. Palmer's death in 1913?
A) Heart failure
B) Typhoid
C) Car accident
D) Old age
  • 20. What did D.D. Palmer claim caused 95 percent of all diseases?
A) Altered blood flow
B) Poor diet
C) Pinched nerves
D) A subluxated vertebra
  • 21. Which publication was released posthumously in 1914?
A) Health and Nerves
B) The Palmer School Gazette
C) The History of Chiropractic
D) The Chiropractor
  • 22. What did D.D. Palmer replace his theory of pinched nerves with?
A) Spinal misalignment
B) Bone displacement
C) Muscular tension
D) Altered nerve vibration
  • 23. In what year did B.J. Palmer assume control of the Palmer School?
A) 1906
B) 1907
C) 1920
D) 1910
  • 24. What term did B.J. Palmer use for spinal X-rays?
A) Chiropractics
B) Radiography
C) Spinography
D) Spinal imaging
  • 25. Who was the DC charged with unlicensed practice of osteopathy in 1907?
A) Shegataro Morikubo
B) John Howard
C) B.J. Palmer
D) D.D. Palmer
  • 26. How did B.J. Palmer describe the basis of his chiropractic school?
A) A strictly academic basis
B) A medical basis
C) A business basis
D) A non-profit basis
  • 27. Approximately how many chiropractic schools opened in the 15 years following the school's growth?
A) 10
B) 50
C) 100
D) 30
  • 28. During the first 30 years, how many prosecutions occurred for practicing medicine without a license?
A) Around 5,000
B) Less than 1,000
C) Exactly 12,000
D) More than 15,000
  • 29. What success rate did Tom Morris and Fred Hartwell have in defending UCA members?
A) 20%
B) 80%
C) 50%
D) 95%
  • 30. What term was used to describe practitioners who mixed chiropractic with other cures?
A) Integrators
B) Generalists
C) Straights
D) Mixers
  • 31. In what year did the practice of osteopathy begin in the United States?
A) 1892
B) 1874
C) 1864
D) 1900
  • 32. Who is the founder of osteopathy?
A) Andrew Taylor Still
B) Andrew Jackson Davis
C) A medical legislator
D) Daniel David Palmer
  • 33. Which figures are thought to have influenced Andrew Taylor Still?
A) Andrew Jackson Davis
B) Daniel David Palmer
C) Florence Nightingale
D) Hippocrates
  • 34. When was the American School of Osteopathy established?
A) 20 May 1900
B) 10 June 1895
C) 15 April 1874
D) 20 May 1892
  • 35. Where was the American School of Osteopathy located?
A) Kansas City, Kansas
B) Kirksville, Missouri
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) St. Louis, Missouri
  • 36. How many students were in the first class of the American School of Osteopathy?
A) Ten
B) Twenty-one
C) Fifty
D) Five
  • 37. What specific disease did Still claim he could stop by shaking a child?
A) Spinal meningitis
B) Influenza
C) Smallpox
D) Scarlet fever
  • 38. What is the name of the earliest known medical text mentioned in the text?
A) Ancient Egyptian Healing Arts
B) Edwin Smith papyrus
C) The Bone-Setter's Manual
D) The Grecian Code
  • 39. In what year was the Edwin Smith papyrus written?
A) 1552 BC
B) 1800 BC
C) 1737 BC
D) 1552 AD
  • 40. What was the famous bone-setter Sally Mapp's nickname?
A) Crazy Sally
B) The Epsom Surgeon
C) Bone Queen
D) London Healer
  • 41. Who taught Sally Mapp her bone-setting skills?
A) A self-taught mentor
B) Her father
C) A court surgeon
D) A local physician
  • 42. Where did Sally Mapp perform many of her treatments?
A) Epsom Medical Center
B) Grecian Coffee House
C) Royal Hospital
D) London University
  • 43. What was one specific skill attributed to Sally Mapp?
A) Performing complex amputations
B) Creating new surgical tools
C) Prescribing medicinal herbs
D) Resetting dislocated shoulders
  • 44. In what year did Daniel David Palmer perform the first chiropractic adjustment?
A) 1895
B) 1975
C) 1907
D) 1896
  • 45. Who received the first chiropractic adjustment?
A) Dr. Jim Atkinson
B) Samuel H. Weed
C) Daniel David Palmer
D) William Harvey Lillard
  • 46. Where was Daniel David Palmer's office located?
A) Louisiana
B) Iowa
C) Kansas
D) Wisconsin
  • 47. Who coined the word 'chiropractic'?
A) Dr. Jim Atkinson
B) Samuel H. Weed
C) Daniel David Palmer
D) William Harvey Lillard
  • 48. What Greek word meaning 'hand' is part of the word 'chiropractic'?
A) bios
B) praktikos
C) cheiro
D) physis
  • 49. D. D. Palmer claimed he received chiropractic from which deceased physician?
A) Samuel H. Weed
B) Andrew Still
C) Dr. Jim Atkinson
D) William Harvey Lillard
  • 50. Which of the following philosophies was NOT part of early chiropractic?
A) Vitalism
B) Evidence-based medicine
C) Magnetism
D) Spiritualism
  • 51. Which technique did D. D. Palmer claim to be the first to use?
A) Massage therapy
B) Acupuncture
C) Surgical intervention
D) Short-lever HVLA
  • 52. In which state did the first successful chiropractic licensing statute occur in 1913?
A) Kansas
B) Louisiana
C) Wisconsin
D) Iowa
  • 53. What term describes chiropractors who rely solely on spinal adjustments?
A) Mixers
B) Straights
C) Osteopaths
D) Spiritualists
  • 54. What led to the development of chiropractic research in 1975?
A) A conference sponsored by the NIH
B) An antitrust lawsuit
C) The first licensing statute
D) The death of D. D. Palmer
  • 55. What occupation did William Harvey Lillard hold?
A) Teacher
B) Attorney
C) Physician
D) Janitor
  • 56. What medical condition was Harvey Lillard suffering from when he visited D.D. Palmer?
A) Partial deafness
B) Chronic back pain
C) A sore lump in his spine
D) General fatigue
  • 57. What scientific theory did Louis Pasteur refute in 1859?
A) Spontaneous generation
B) Bacterial infection
C) Natural selection
D) Magnetic healing
  • 58. Why did critics argue against the link between spinal adjustments and hearing restoration?
A) Spinal nerves do not extend into the encephalon
B) The adjustment was not specific enough
C) The adjustment caused more damage to the spine
D) Harvey Lillard was not actually deaf
  • 59. What term did Andrew Taylor Still use to define magnetic healing?
A) Homeopathy
B) Chiropractic
C) Bonesetting
D) Hypnotism
  • 60. In what year did D.D. Palmer add a school to his magnetic healing infirmary?
A) 1894
B) 1910
C) 1896
D) 1903
  • 61. Who opened the American School of Chiropractic & Nature Cure in 1903?
A) Solon M. Langworthy
B) B.J. Palmer
C) John Howard
D) D.D. Palmer
  • 62. What did the local Davenport paper call D.D. Palmer in 1894?
A) A scientist
B) A physician
C) A genius
D) A quack
  • 63. What specific condition did D.D. Palmer claim to treat after adjusting a displaced vertebra near the nerves innervating the heart?
A) Deafness
B) Heart trouble
C) Headaches
D) Back pain
  • 64. When was the American Medical Association (AMA) formed?
A) 1847
B) 1910
C) 1896
D) 1903
  • 65. What was the name of the report, financed by the Carnegie Foundation, that closed hundreds of medical schools in 1910?
A) Rockefeller Report
B) Flexner Report
C) AMA Report
D) Davenport Report
  • 66. Which school was named as the model school in the 1910 Flexner Report?
A) American School of Chiropractic
B) Harvard Medical School
C) Palmer School of Chiropractic
D) Johns Hopkins
  • 67. What ideology by 1895 created political pressure to improve science and math education in the US?
A) Magnetic healing
B) Kulturopolitik
C) Eclectic medicine
D) Nostrum remedium
  • 68. Which of these individuals was NOT mentioned as one of the first graduates of the Palmer School of Chiropractic?
A) John D. Rockefeller
B) Shegataro Morikubo
C) B.J. Palmer
D) Andrew P. Davis
  • 69. What term did chiropractors use for the manipulable lesion that interfered with the nervous system?
A) Fracture
B) Sprain
C) Dislocation
D) Subluxation
  • 70. Who started a campaign against drugless healers in Davenport in 1899?
A) Solon Langworthy
B) Andrew Still
C) D.D. Palmer
D) Heinrich Matthey
  • 71. How did Langworthy describe the 'life force' in his curriculum?
A) The heart
B) The liver
C) The spine
D) The brain
  • 72. What were the 'spinal windows' referred to by Langworthy?
A) Transverse processes
B) Intervertebral foramina
C) Disc spaces
D) Spinous processes
  • 73. What was the neurocalometer, introduced by B.J. Palmer in 1924?
A) A surgical instrument.
B) A temperature-sensing device.
C) A patient record management system.
D) An X-ray machine.
  • 74. Who was the second president of the ACA credited with its growth through his work at the National Chiropractic College?
A) John J. Nugent
B) Frank R. Margetts
C) Dossa D. Evans
D) B.J. Palmer
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