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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 6?
2. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?
3. For how long does the author assert the influenza virus can remain infectious on a hard surface in Chapter 22?
4. How old was William H. Park in 1918?
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 does the term "cyanotic" refer to and how does it relate to the 1918 flu?
2. What did the Providence Journal report on the pandemic, according to the author in Chapter 29?
3. What did the outfall of the Liberty Loan Parade look like?
4. Who was Joe Capps and what contribution did he have to the scientists fighting the virus?
5. How did William Henry Welch respond when he became infected with the flu?
6. Who was Rupert Blue and why is he important in the narrative?
7. Who was Colonel Charles Hagadorn and how did he die?
8. How did the 1918 flu affect the human lungs?
9. What happened to the soldiers that Colonel Charles Hagadorn had transported from Camp Grant to Camp Hancock?
10. What does the term "epidemiology" refer to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the career of Richard Pfeiffer. What was Richard Pfeiffer's major discovery? How did that discovery come into play in the search for the pathogen of the 1918 flu? Was this a search in the right direction?
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
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?
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