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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. Counting both sides, how many troops died in the U.S. Civil war from disease?

2. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?

3. Who won the popular vote against Rutherford B. Hayes, but never took office?

4. Where was William Henry Welch born?

5. In the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 what percentage of those who fell ill with measles during the seige of Paris died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Daniel Coit Gilman?

4. Why was the Postmaster General given special priviliges under the Sedition Act of 1918? What were they?

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

6. For what was Émile Roux most known?

7. Describe William Henry Welch's medical education.

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

9. What does "antigen drift" refer to?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and career of Paul Lewis. Why does the author bookend the narrative with Lewis's story? What discoveries did Lewis make? What was his legacy?

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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