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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. What symptom of the 1918 flu refers to a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood?
(a) Cyanosis.
(b) Ambiosis.
(c) Passive immunity.
(d) Regeneration.

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

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?
(a) Thomas Huxley.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Louis Howe.
(d) George McCoy.

4. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?
(a) 52.
(b) 46.
(c) 19.
(d) 23.

5. How many civilians were admitted to Philadelphia hospitals on September 27, 1918 suffering from influenza?
(a) 652.
(b) 53.
(c) 123.
(d) 89.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Oswald Avery born?

2. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?

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

4. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?

5. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?

(see the answer key)

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