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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. Outside of what city was Camp Grant located, according to the author in Chapter 18?
(a) Mena, Arkansas.
(b) West Memphis, Tennessee.
(c) Rockford, Illinois.
(d) Dallas, Texas.

2. On the day that the first Camp Grant soldier died, how many troops boarded a train from Camp Grant for Camp Hancock?
(a) 1,234.
(b) 5,232.
(c) 3,108.
(d) 2,523.

3. When did the U.S. enter into World War I?
(a) April, 1917.
(b) April, 1916.
(c) September, 1917.
(d) June, 1918.

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

5. 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 Gram test.
(b) The Ross test.
(c) The Boyle test.
(d) The Pfeiffer test.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

2. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?

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

4. Where did William Welch go for part of his recuperation in Atlantic City?

5. Who was the personal physician to Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt during their presidential terms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the soldiers that Colonel Charles Hagadorn had transported from Camp Grant to Camp Hancock?

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

3. What did the Providence Journal report on the pandemic, according to the author in Chapter 29?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What were the informational aspects of the pandemic that that scientists sought to discover, according to the author in Chapter 22?

10. What were the results of Dr. W. R. Redden's serum trial?

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