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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Camp Grant was located along what river?
(a) The Hudson River.
(b) The Trinity River.
(c) The Shasta River.
(d) The Rock River.

2. 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) 284,000.
(b) 675,000.
(c) 723,000.
(d) 425,000.

3. Who is the great French physiologist who is quoted in Chapter 22 as saying "Science teaches us to doubt" (274)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Claude Bernard.

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

5. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1900.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What symptom of the 1918 flu refers to a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood?
(a) Cyanosis.
(b) Regeneration.
(c) Passive immunity.
(d) Ambiosis.

12. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1871.

13. In what year did Rupert Blue rise to the position of U.S. Surgeon General?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

3. Outside of what city was Camp Grant located, according to the author in Chapter 18?

4. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?

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

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