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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term from Chapter 24 refers to is the clumping of particles?
(a) Acclimation.
(b) Agglutination.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Cyanosis.

4. How many troops did Camp Pike house in 1918?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 40,000.

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

6. When did Park create the Laboratory for Special Therapy and Investigation in rival to the Rockefeller Institute?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1919.

7. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?
(a) Little Rock.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Milwaukee.

8. 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) Louis Howe.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Richard Pearce.

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

10. 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) 34.
(b) 82.
(c) 49.
(d) 67.

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. Where was Robert Prager born?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?

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

3. What book did Katherine Anne Porter publish that included some of her experiences with the Spanish flu?

4. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?

5. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?

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