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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 is the title of Part 7 of the book?

2. Who sent a telegraph to William H. Park to ask his lab to investigate the Spanish flu from the National Research Council's section on medicine?

3. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?

4. Where was Preston Kyes working in June of 1918?

5. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Wilmer Krusen and what decision did he make that was crucial to the spread of the virus?

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

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

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

5. Why were the U.S. newspapers not reporting widely on the pandemic of 1918?

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

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

8. What does the term "epidemiology" refer to?

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

10. Who was Rupert Blue and why is he important in the narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Discuss the life and career of Rufus Cole. Where was Rufus Cole working when the flu pandemic broke out? What were his responsibilities in relation to the outbreak? What were his achievements?

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