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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does religion and philosophy ask that science does not, because it is too deep a question for science?
(a) How?
(b) Why?
(c) Where?
(d) When?

2. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 23,000.

3. What term refers to the short-term immunity which results from the introduction of antibodies from another person or animal?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Passive immunity.
(c) Partial immunity.
(d) Integral immunity.

4. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?
(a) George Creel.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Albert Sidney Burleson.

5. When did John Adams and his party pass the Sedition Act?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1805.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

2. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

3. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

4. Who was William Henry Welch's assistant that went on to remake Harvard's medical school in the Hopkins's image?

5. Where was William Henry Welch born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the conditions like at Camp Devens when the pandemic hit?

2. Why was the Postmaster General given special priviliges under the Sedition Act of 1918? What were they?

3. How does the author describe American medical education up to the turn of the twentieth century in the Prologue?

4. How are the patients of Paul Lewis described in the Prologue? What were their primary symptoms?

5. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?

6. Where is the 1918 flu pandemic believed to have originated? How did it originate?

7. What was the most noteworthy aspect of those who were killed by the Spanish flu?

8. What are the estimated death toll number from the 1918 flu pandemic?

9. Who was William Gorgas? What was his role in the war?

10. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

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