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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 Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Henle.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Blue.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Michie.

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

3. What did the death toll ultimately reach in New York City alone from the Spanish flu pandemic?
(a) 33,000.
(b) 26,000.
(c) 28,000.
(d) 45,000.

4. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?
(a) Carl Ludwig.
(b) Rupert Blue.
(c) Jacob Henle.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

5. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) The San Jose Chronicle.
(c) The Rocky Mountain News.
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. enter into World War I?

2. 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?

3. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

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

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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