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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. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 4,102.
(b) 3,252.
(c) 6,231.
(d) 1,245.

2. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 16,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 23,000.

3. New York City Health Commissioner Royal Copeland estimated that how many children in the city had been made orphans due to the pandemic?
(a) 26,000.
(b) 19,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 21,000.

4. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?
(a) 634,000.
(b) 452,000.
(c) 373,000.
(d) 253,000.

5. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 1,400.
(c) 3,200.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?

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

3. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?

4. From what did Louis Thuillier die?

5. The author states in Chapter 17 that there were no high schools in all of South Philadelphia until what year?

(see the answer key)

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