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

2. What was the approximate population of the United states in 1918-1919?
(a) 120-125 million.
(b) 130-140 million.
(c) 80-85 million.
(d) 105-110 million.

3. When Johns Hopkins died, how much was the trust he left to found a univerisity and hospital?
(a) $2.1 million.
(b) $4.2 million.
(c) $1.3 million.
(d) $3.5 million.

4. Who developed a method still in use that led to the first blood banks being established at the front in 1917?
(a) Martin Behrman.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Peyton Rous.
(d) Alexis Carrel.

5. How many people died in Philadelphia on October 1, 1918?
(a) 95.
(b) 215.
(c) 117.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?

2. What were the names of the Mayo brothers who were giants in the field of surgery?

3. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

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

5. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?

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