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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 medical schools were there in Philadelphia when the outbreak occurred in 1918?

2. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?

3. 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)?

4. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the transformation of the American medical educational system in the late 1800s. How did the changes come about? Who was responsible for revamping the U.S. medical educational system? What achievements were made in this time?

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