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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?
(a) Lucidian motion.
(b) Brownian motion.
(c) Ambiguous motion.
(d) Articulate motion.

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

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

10. What ship that was once the pride of the German passenger fleet, had been confiscated by the U.S. undamaged during WWI?
(a) The Leviathan.
(b) The Republica Dominica.
(c) The Rose Water.
(d) The Discovery.

11. What was the approximate population of the United states in 1918-1919?
(a) 130-140 million.
(b) 105-110 million.
(c) 120-125 million.
(d) 80-85 million.

12. For how long does the author assert the influenza virus can remain infectious on a hard surface in Chapter 22?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 5 days.

13. What is the title of Part 6?
(a) "Annihilation."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "The Pestilence."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rupert Blue rise to the position of U.S. Surgeon General?

2. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?

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

4. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

5. When did Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder issue his "work or fight" order?

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