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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. How many medical schools were there in Philadelphia when the outbreak occurred in 1918?
(a) 23.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 19.

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

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

4. How many people died in Philadelphia on October 1, 1918?
(a) 95.
(b) 11.
(c) 117.
(d) 215.

5. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Milwaukee.
(d) Little Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Camp Dodge located?

2. Camp Grant was located along what river?

3. Martha Wollstein was a respected bacteriologist associated with what institution in 1918?

4. What is the title of Part 8?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "the grippe" refer to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the term "cyanotic" refer to and how does it relate to the 1918 flu?

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