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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 borrowed John Snow's epidemiologist methodology and applied it to the study of typhoid in the 1850s?

2. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

3. Where was William Henry Welch born?

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

5. Where was anesthesia first demonstrated at a general hospital in 1846?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the significant impact that the 1918 flu had on the human immune system?

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

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

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

5. Who was Galen and what were his accomplishments?

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

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

8. What does "antigen drift" refer to?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the political atmosphere at the time of the 1918 flu pandemic. Who was the president of the United States? What was the global political atmosphere? How did politics influence the spread of the disease?

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 of Richard Pfeiffer. What was Richard Pfeiffer's major discovery? How did that discovery come into play in the search for the pathogen of the 1918 flu? Was this a search in the right direction?

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