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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. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?
(a) 46.
(b) 23.
(c) 52.
(d) 19.

2. Who was the keynote speaker at the launching celebration for the John Hopkins University?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) William Budd.
(c) Thomas H. Huxley.
(d) Carl Ludwig.

3. What is the title of Part 6?
(a) "The Pestilence."
(b) "The Warriors."
(c) "Explosion."
(d) "Annihilation."

4. For whom did Katherine Anne Porter work as a news reporter when the 1918 flu pandemic broke out?
(a) The Rocky Mountain News.
(b) The San Jose Chronicle.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The San Francisco Chronicle.

5. Who gave the word "'paradigm' wide usage by arguing that at any given point in time, a particular paradigm, a kind of perceived truth, dominates the thinking in any science" (24)?
(a) Thomas Kuhn.
(b) Daniel Coit Gilman.
(c) Samuel Tilden.
(d) Elias Canetti.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Colonel Charles Hagadorn die?

4. Where was Robert Prager born?

5. In what branch of the military was Paul Lewis a lieutenant commander in 1918?

(see the answer key)

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