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

2. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?
(a) 42.
(b) 65.
(c) 48.
(d) 55.

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

4. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?
(a) 67.
(b) 34.
(c) 82.
(d) 49.

5. How many troops did Camp Pike house in 1918?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 40,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?

2. Where was Robert Prager born?

3. How did Colonel Charles Hagadorn die?

4. The author states in Chapter 17 that there were no high schools in all of South Philadelphia until what year?

5. How old was Richard Pfeiffer in 1918?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does "the grippe" refer to?

10. How did William Henry Welch respond when he became infected with the flu?

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