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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. Where was Oswald Avery born?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Portland.
(c) New Paltz.
(d) Montreal.

2. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?
(a) 400.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 300.

3. Who wrote Journal of the Plague Year?
(a) Karl Menninger.
(b) Daniel Defoe.
(c) Joseph Tumulty.
(d) William Budd.

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

5. Who was the Surgeon General of the Army when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) William Crawford Gorgas.
(c) William Jennings Bryan.
(d) Peyton Rous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?

2. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?

3. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?

4. Who were referred to as the "Big Four" (286) in Chapter 32?

5. What did the U.S. population exceed in the year 2004?

(see the answer key)

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