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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 executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?
(a) Executive Order 5142.
(b) Executive Order 3243.
(c) Executive Order 2594.
(d) Executive Order 1248.

2. Near what town was Camp Custer located in the fall of 1918?
(a) Malvern, Pennsylvania.
(b) Augusta, Georgia.
(c) Battle Creek, Michigan.
(d) Roarke, New York.

3. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?
(a) Salversan.
(b) Arsenic.
(c) Abutron.
(d) Codeine.

4. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) The University of Wisconsin.

5. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 1,245.
(b) 6,231.
(c) 4,102.
(d) 3,252.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?

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. When was the American Red Cross founded?

4. When did World War I begin?

5. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?

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