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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 does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?

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

3. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?

4. For how long does the author assert the influenza virus can remain infectious on a hard surface in Chapter 22?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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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