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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. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?
(a) The University of Pennsylvania.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

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

3. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) George McCoy.

4. 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.

5. What ship that was once the pride of the German passenger fleet, had been confiscated by the U.S. undamaged during WWI?
(a) The Discovery.
(b) The Republica Dominica.
(c) The Rose Water.
(d) The Leviathan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?

3. How did Colonel Charles Hagadorn die?

4. The author states in Chapter 21 that the process of inflammation involves the release by certain white blood cells of proteins that are called what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How did the 1918 flu affect the human lungs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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