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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. How many people were reported to have died from influenza in Philadelphia on October 5, 1918?
(a) 625.
(b) 195.
(c) 135.
(d) 254.

2. Where was Charles-Edward Winslow working as an epidemiologist and professor when the 1918 outbreak occurred?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. 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) 109,534.
(b) 200,825.
(c) 342,003.
(d) 674,120.

4. How many medical schools were there in Philadelphia when the outbreak occurred in 1918?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 23.
(d) 5.

5. 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) Elias Canetti.
(b) George McCoy.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Louis Howe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?

3. Where was Preston Kyes working in June of 1918?

4. The author states in Chapter 17 that there were no high schools in all of South Philadelphia until what year?

5. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

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