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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. Who was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until he resigned in 1915?

2. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

3. When did Rudolf Virchow receive his medical degree?

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 3, three theories stood as rivals to the germ theory. What did the first theory involve?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the 1918 flu pandemic believed to have originated? How did it originate?

2. How does the author describe American medical education up to the turn of the twentieth century in the Prologue?

3. Why does the author credit William Henry Welch as being the most influential scientist in the world?

4. What is the one purpose of a virus, according to the author?

5. When was the American Red Cross founded? What was its mission?

6. How does pneumonia kill humans?

7. Who was Simon Flexner? What were his greatest achievements?

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

9. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

10. What does "antigen drift" refer to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use of masks as preventative measures for spreading the 1918 flu pandemic. When and where were these measures introduced? How effective were they? Were the measures implemented among the public?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss three examples of irony in The Great Influenza. What type of irony is used in each example? What purpose does it serve? What is your response to each example?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrative style in The Great Influenza. From what narrative perspective is the story related? In what tense? Why are these choices important?

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