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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 17 - Part 6: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Katherine Anne Porter publish that included some of her experiences with the Spanish flu?
(a) The Discovery.
(b) One Walk in the Night.
(c) The Plague of 1918.
(d) Pale Horse, Pale Rider.

2. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?
(a) Blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile.
(b) Phlegm, urine, sweat, and blood.
(c) Heat, coolness, love, and fear.
(d) Blood, bile, fever, and taste.

3. Where was Robert Prager born?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

4. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?
(a) The Cordon Wells Naval Training Station.
(b) The Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
(c) The Abrasia Naval Training Station.
(d) The Winters Anderson Naval Training Station.

5. When was the American Red Cross founded?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1888.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?

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. Who was named head of the Committee on Public Information when it was formed?

4. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

5. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

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