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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?
(a) The Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
(b) The Cordon Wells Naval Training Station.
(c) The Abrasia Naval Training Station.
(d) The Winters Anderson Naval Training Station.

2. When did Paul Lewis complete his medical training at Penn?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1904.

3. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?
(a) Carl Ludwig.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) Jacob Henle.
(d) Rupert Blue.

4. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?
(a) Lucidian motion.
(b) Articulate motion.
(c) Ambiguous motion.
(d) Brownian motion.

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) George McCoy.

6. 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?
(a) Cytokines.
(b) Ionites.
(c) Aminos.
(d) Hormones.

7. Who was the personal physician to Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt during their presidential terms?
(a) Dr. Louis Howe.
(b) Dr. Samuel Tilden.
(c) Dr. Cary Grayson.
(d) Dr. Elias Canetti.

8. How many civilians were admitted to Philadelphia hospitals on September 27, 1918 suffering from influenza?
(a) 53.
(b) 123.
(c) 89.
(d) 652.

9. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) George McCoy.
(d) Elias Canetti.

10. How did Colonel Charles Hagadorn die?
(a) He died from the flu.
(b) He died from Typhoid fever.
(c) He was shot in warfare.
(d) He shot himself.

11. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?
(a) 24-26 hours.
(b) 12-24 hours.
(c) 24-72 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

12. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?
(a) 22.
(b) 52.
(c) 16.
(d) 36.

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

14. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?
(a) Lubbock, Texas.
(b) Roarke, New York.
(c) Augusta, Georgia.
(d) Malvern, Pennsylvania.

15. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?
(a) The University of Wisconsin.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?

2. Where was Charles-Edward Winslow working as an epidemiologist and professor when the 1918 outbreak occurred?

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

4. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

5. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?

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