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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9: Chapter 31 - Part 10: Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Henle.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Michie.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Blue.

2. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?
(a) Army.
(b) Navy.
(c) Marines.
(d) Air Force.

3. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

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

5. What is the lowest estimate of the death toll from the Spanish Flu, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) 21 million.
(b) 6 million.
(c) 12. million.
(d) 10 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?

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

3. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?

4. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?

5. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?

(see the answer key)

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