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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Richard Pfeiffer in 1918?
(a) 70.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 60.

2. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?
(a) 65.
(b) 42.
(c) 55.
(d) 48.

3. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Samuel Tilden.

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

5. How many medical schools were there in Philadelphia when the outbreak occurred in 1918?
(a) 19.
(b) 5.
(c) 23.
(d) 12.

6. When did New York City's first influenza death occur in 1918?
(a) March 15.
(b) September 15.
(c) June 12.
(d) December 12.

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

8. What is the title of Part 7 of the book?
(a) "The Pestilence."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "The Race."

9. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Samuel Tilden.
(c) Elias Canetti.
(d) Daniel Coit Gilman.

10. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?
(a) Long Island, New York.
(b) Greensville, Tennessee.
(c) Clark, Texas.
(d) Missoula, Montana.

11. What is the title of Part 8?
(a) "The Warriors."
(b) "The Pestilence."
(c) "The Tolling of the Bell."
(d) "The Race."

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

13. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?
(a) 5 years in prison.
(b) 10 years in prison.
(c) 20 years in prison.
(d) 15 years in prison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

3. What was the approximate population of the United states in 1918-1919?

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. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

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