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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most serious disease that threatened the construction of the Panama Canal?

2. When was the American Red Cross founded?

3. What executive order created the Committee on Public Information during WWI?

4. What were the four humours that were hypothesized by those who wrote the Hippocratic texts?

5. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when the U.S. entered the Great War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term "pathogen" refer to and why is it important in the narrative?

2. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

3. What were the conditions like at Camp Devens when the pandemic hit?

4. When was Johns Hopkins University founded? Why was it important?

5. In what ways did bigotry against immigrants arise in 1917-1918?

6. How are the patients of Paul Lewis described in the Prologue? What were their primary symptoms?

7. What was the Sedition Act of 1918?

8. Describe the narrative style of the Prologue. From what perspective is it related?

9. What does "antigen drift" refer to?

10. Give a brief description of Woodrow Wilson's political career. During what years was he president?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the plot structure of The Great Influenza. Where is the inciting incident? What marks the climax of the narrative? What information does the author reveal in the denouement?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the 1918 flu pandemic in comparison with another outbreak of disease in the past 100 years (AIDS, Ebola, Covid-19, etc.). How are they similar? How are they different? What aspects of each outbreak stands out?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the career and death of Colonel Charles Hagadorn. Where was Colonel Charles Hagadorn stationed? What was his position? What decisions did he make that were important in relation to the pandemic? How did he die?

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