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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hormones.
(c) Ionites.
(d) Aminos.

2. Where was Charles-Edward Winslow working as an epidemiologist and professor when the 1918 outbreak occurred?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Yale University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?
(a) Amino acids.
(b) Sodium baclorate.
(c) Sodium chloride.
(d) Sodium oleate.

10. 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.

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

12. Where did William Welch go for part of his recuperation in Atlantic City?
(a) Hotel Monmarte.
(b) The Four Corners.
(c) Hotel Dennis.
(d) Hotel Devonshire.

13. How many people were reported to have died from influenza in Philadelphia on October 5, 1918?
(a) 195.
(b) 625.
(c) 135.
(d) 254.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Camp Grant was located along what river?

2. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?

3. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?

4. What is the title of Part 7 of the book?

5. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?

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