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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 17 - Part 6: Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 6,231.
(b) 3,252.
(c) 1,245.
(d) 4,102.

2. 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?
(a) 82.
(b) 67.
(c) 49.
(d) 34.

3. How many local chapters were there in the American Red Cross when World War I ended?
(a) 2,534.
(b) 1,745.
(c) 3,677.
(d) 3,864.

4. Who wrote the book Crowds and Power?
(a) Elias Canetti.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) William Councilman.

5. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 3,200.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,400.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Germany announce unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral and merchant vessels during WWI?

2. What is the title of Part 1?

3. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that there are two most important questions in science. What is the second?

5. In the late nineteenth century, there were 7,000 engineers according to the author. How many were there just after World War I?

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