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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. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?
(a) The San Jose Chronicle.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) The Rocky Mountain News.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

2. On the day that the first Camp Grant soldier died, how many troops boarded a train from Camp Grant for Camp Hancock?
(a) 1,234.
(b) 2,523.
(c) 3,108.
(d) 5,232.

3. The author states in Chapter 17 that there were no high schools in all of South Philadelphia until what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1925.

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the first?
(a) Why?
(b) What can I know?
(c) Why is this happening?
(d) How is this occurring?

5. According to the author in Chapter 12, pneumonia maintained its position as the leading cause of death in the United States until what year?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

3. The author states in Chapter 21 that the process of inflammation involves the release by certain white blood cells of proteins that are called what?

4. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?

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

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