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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?
(a) June 30, 1918.
(b) October 3, 1918.
(c) March 12, 1918.
(d) September 14, 1918.

2. In what kind of test are bacteria "stained with crystal violet, treated with iodine, washed with alcohol, and then stained again with a contrasting dye" (298)?
(a) The Pfeiffer test.
(b) The Ross test.
(c) The Boyle test.
(d) The Gram test.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) George McCoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?

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

4. What is the title of Part 8?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term "epidemiology" refer to?

2. How did the Council of National Defense become involved in the Philadelphia outbreak?

3. Who was Rupert Blue and why is he important in the narrative?

4. Who was Richard Pfeiffer and why is his work noted in the book?

5. How did the 1918 flu affect the human lungs?

6. Who was Wilmer Krusen and what decision did he make that was crucial to the spread of the virus?

7. What were the results of Paul Lewis's flu vaccine trial described in Chapter 24?

8. Who was Colonel Charles Hagadorn and how did he die?

9. Who was Joe Capps and what contribution did he have to the scientists fighting the virus?

10. Why were the U.S. newspapers not reporting widely on the pandemic of 1918?

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