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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. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Henle.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sidney Burleson.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Michie.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Blue.

2. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?
(a) Sodium chloride.
(b) Sodium oleate.
(c) Amino acids.
(d) Sodium baclorate.

3. Where was Josey Brown working when she fell ill?
(a) The Abrasia Naval Training Station.
(b) The Winters Anderson Naval Training Station.
(c) The Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
(d) The Cordon Wells Naval Training Station.

4. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?
(a) Missoula, Montana.
(b) Greensville, Tennessee.
(c) Long Island, New York.
(d) Clark, Texas.

5. What is the title of Part 6?
(a) "The Warriors."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "The Pestilence."
(d) "Annihilation."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

2. In what year did Rupert Blue rise to the position of U.S. Surgeon General?

3. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?

4. Camp Grant was located along what river?

5. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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