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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 people were reported to have died from influenza in Philadelphia on October 5, 1918?

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?

3. Camp Hancock was located outside of what city?

4. How many civilians were admitted to Philadelphia hospitals on September 27, 1918 suffering from influenza?

5. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was Richard Pfeiffer and why is his work noted in the book?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the impact of Wilmer Krusen's choices regarding the Liberty Loan Parade. What was Krusen warned of regarding the parade? How did he respond? What was the outcome of his decision?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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