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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Chapter 22 - Part 8: Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) Jacob Henle.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Rupert Blue.

2. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) George McCoy.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

3. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?
(a) 24-26 hours.
(b) 24-72 hours.
(c) 12-24 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

4. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 6,231.
(b) 3,252.
(c) 1,245.
(d) 4,102.

5. Between June 1 and August 1, 1918, how many British soldiers in France were hit hard enough by the 1918 flu that they could not report to duty?
(a) 200,825.
(b) 674,120.
(c) 109,534.
(d) 342,003.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?

2. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?

3. When did Park create the Laboratory for Special Therapy and Investigation in rival to the Rockefeller Institute?

4. When did the U.S. enter into World War I?

5. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?

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