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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 8?

2. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?

3. Outside of what city was Camp Grant located, according to the author in Chapter 18?

4. What is the title of Part 6?

5. What symptom of the 1918 flu refers to a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does "the grippe" refer to?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrative style in The Great Influenza. From what narrative perspective is the story related? In what tense? Why are these choices important?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the life and career of William Henry Welch. Why does the author regard Welch as an influential pioneer? What was Welch's role during the 1918 flu pandemic? For what is he most known?

Essay Topic 3

Describe three examples of symbolism in The Great Influenza. What is being represented? How does this symbol relate to you? How does the symbol relate universally?

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