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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?
2. When did William Henry Welch enter Yale's Sheffield Scientific School to study chemistry?
3. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
4. When was the American Red Cross founded?
5. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the most noteworthy aspect of those who were killed by the Spanish flu?
2. What aspects of military operations made the 1918 flu more likely to spread?
3. Describe William Henry Welch's medical education.
4. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?
5. Who was William Gorgas? What was his role in the war?
6. Where is the 1918 flu pandemic believed to have originated? How did it originate?
7. What were the conditions like at Camp Devens when the pandemic hit?
8. Why does the author credit William Henry Welch as being the most influential scientist in the world?
9. In what ways did bigotry against immigrants arise in 1917-1918?
10. How are the patients of Paul Lewis described in the Prologue? What were their primary symptoms?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the life and career of Paul Lewis. Why does the author bookend the narrative with Lewis's story? What discoveries did Lewis make? What was his legacy?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the mutations of the 1918 flu. How did the first wave of the pandemic differ from the second wave? How did the third wave compare to the first two? What eventually led to the dissolution of the virus?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the military's responses to the 1918 flu pandemic. When and where did the pandemic break out? How did it spread? In what ways was the military responsible for its spread?
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