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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. When did Paul Lewis complete his medical training at Penn?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1919.

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

3. Where was Preston Kyes working in June of 1918?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) New York University.
(d) Princeton University.

4. Near what town was Camp Custer located in the fall of 1918?
(a) Augusta, Georgia.
(b) Battle Creek, Michigan.
(c) Roarke, New York.
(d) Malvern, Pennsylvania.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Camp Dodge located?

2. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?

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

4. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?

5. How many troops did Camp Pike house in 1918?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the outfall of the Liberty Loan Parade look like?

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

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

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

8. What was the political landscape of Philadelphia in September of 1918?

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

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

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