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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 wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

2. How old was William H. Park in 1918?

3. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?

4. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?

5. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Joe Capps and what contribution did he have to the scientists fighting the virus?

3. What does "the grippe" refer to?

4. What happened to the soldiers that Colonel Charles Hagadorn had transported from Camp Grant to Camp Hancock?

5. How did the Council of National Defense become involved in the Philadelphia outbreak?

6. What did the outfall of the Liberty Loan Parade look like?

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

8. How did William Henry Welch respond when he became infected with the flu?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the mutations of the 1918 flu. How did the first wave of the pandemic differ from the second wave? How did the third wave compare to the first two? What eventually led to the dissolution of the virus?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the symptoms and effects of the 1918 flu. How quickly did one get sick from the disease? What were the first symptoms? How did the disease progress in the body? What organs were affected the most?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the military's responses to the 1918 flu pandemic. When and where did the pandemic break out? How did it spread? In what ways was the military responsible for its spread?

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