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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) The Rockefeller Institute.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard University.

2. According to the author in Chapter 20, investigators today believe that in the United States, the 1918-1919 flu epidemic caused an excess death toll of about how many people?
(a) 284,000.
(b) 675,000.
(c) 723,000.
(d) 425,000.

3. Who is the great French physiologist who is quoted in Chapter 22 as saying "Science teaches us to doubt" (274)?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Louis Howe.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Claude Bernard.

4. On the day that the first Camp Grant soldier died, how many troops boarded a train from Camp Grant for Camp Hancock?
(a) 1,234.
(b) 2,523.
(c) 5,232.
(d) 3,108.

5. What is the title of Part 5 of the book?
(a) "New Science."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "Resolution."
(d) "The Warriors."

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Katherine Anne Porter publish that included some of her experiences with the Spanish flu?

2. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?

3. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?

4. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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