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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. With whom did Henry Phipps make millions at U.S. Steel, according to the author in Chapter 17?
2. Where was Preston Kyes working in June of 1918?
3. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
4. Where was Robert Prager born?
5. Due to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, one in every how many solders in the army died of influenza and its complications, according to the author in Chapter 20?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the outfall of the Liberty Loan Parade look like?
2. How did the Council of National Defense become involved in the Philadelphia outbreak?
3. Why were the U.S. newspapers not reporting widely on the pandemic of 1918?
4. Who was Wilmer Krusen and what decision did he make that was crucial to the spread of the virus?
5. What did the Providence Journal report on the pandemic, according to the author in Chapter 29?
6. What does the term "epidemiology" refer to?
7. How did William Henry Welch respond when he became infected with the flu?
8. Who was Richard Pfeiffer and why is his work noted in the book?
9. What happened to the soldiers that Colonel Charles Hagadorn had transported from Camp Grant to Camp Hancock?
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 1918 flu pandemic in comparison with another outbreak of disease in the past 100 years (AIDS, Ebola, Covid-19, etc.). How are they similar? How are they different? What aspects of each outbreak stands out?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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