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

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

3. When did Pasteur prove that living organisms caused fermentation?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1879.

4. Who wrote the book Paradise Lost?
(a) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) John Milton.

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?
(a) Amitosis.
(b) Carcinogens.
(c) Migration.
(d) Miasma.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?

2. What is the title of Part 5 of the book?

3. How many people died in Philadelphia on October 1, 1918?

4. Where was Preston Kyes working in June of 1918?

5. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?

(see the answer key)

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