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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. How many troops did Camp Pike house in 1918?

2. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?

3. Where was Camp Upton located in 1918?

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

5. Camp Grant was located along what river?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the political landscape of Philadelphia in September of 1918?

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

4. What were the results of Paul Lewis's flu vaccine trial described in Chapter 24?

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

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

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

8. What does the term "cyanotic" refer to and how does it relate to the 1918 flu?

9. What were the results of Dr. W. R. Redden's serum trial?

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 life and career of Oswald Avery. Where did Avery study? What were his areas of specialty? How was he involved in the fight against the 1918 flu pandemic?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the plot structure of The Great Influenza. Where is the inciting incident? What marks the climax of the narrative? What information does the author reveal in the denouement?

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