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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) Wilmer Krusen.
(c) Carl Ludwig.
(d) Jacob Henle.

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

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

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

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

6. How old was William H. Park in 1918?
(a) 65.
(b) 55.
(c) 62.
(d) 48.

7. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The Rockefeller Institute.
(d) The University of Pennsylvania.

8. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?
(a) 67.
(b) 49.
(c) 82.
(d) 34.

9. What book did Katherine Anne Porter publish that included some of her experiences with the Spanish flu?
(a) Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
(b) The Discovery.
(c) The Plague of 1918.
(d) One Walk in the Night.

10. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?
(a) June 30, 1918.
(b) September 14, 1918.
(c) March 12, 1918.
(d) October 3, 1918.

11. What is the title of Part 5 of the book?
(a) "Explosion."
(b) "The Warriors."
(c) "Resolution."
(d) "New Science."

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

13. According to the author in Chapter 20, investigators today believe that in the United States, the 1918-1919 flu epidemic caused an excess death toll of about how many people?
(a) 675,000.
(b) 284,000.
(c) 723,000.
(d) 425,000.

14. When did Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder issue his "work or fight" order?
(a) March 23, 1917.
(b) May 23, 1918.
(c) April 2, 1918.
(d) March 1, 1919.

15. Who sent a telegraph to William H. Park to ask his lab to investigate the Spanish flu from the National Research Council's section on medicine?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Richard Pearce.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Louis Howe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did New York City's first influenza death occur in 1918?

2. What is the title of Part 6?

3. 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)?

4. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

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

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