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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. 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) Thomas Huxley.
(c) George McCoy.
(d) Louis Howe.

2. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?
(a) 373,000.
(b) 253,000.
(c) 634,000.
(d) 452,000.

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

4. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?
(a) Wilmer Krusen.
(b) Jacob Henle.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Rupert Blue.

5. When Woodrow Wilson took the presidency in 1912, he had won what percentage of the vote?
(a) 34%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 49%.
(d) 23%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?

3. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?

4. In what kind of test are bacteria "stained with crystal violet, treated with iodine, washed with alcohol, and then stained again with a contrasting dye" (298)?

5. Where was Camp Dodge located?

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