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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. According to the author in Chapter 20, investigators today believe that in the United States, the 1918-1919 flu epidemic caused an excess death toll of about how many people?

2. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?

3. How many sailors arrived from Boston at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on September 7, 1918?

4. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?

5. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "the grippe" refer to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the press and media in the 1918 flu pandemic. How widely reported was the pandemic? Why was reporting as it was? How did the reporting influence the spread of disease?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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