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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Chapter 22 - Part 8: Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many civilians were admitted to Philadelphia hospitals on September 27, 1918 suffering from influenza?
(a) 652.
(b) 123.
(c) 53.
(d) 89.

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 22 as having said, 'Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards" (277)?
(a) Louis Howe.
(b) George McCoy.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Elias Canetti.

3. Who was the mayor of New Orleans when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) William Jennings Bryan.
(b) Peyton Rous.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) Martin Behrman.

4. On what date did Knusen ban all public meetings in Philadelphia, including further Liberty Loan gatherings, churches, schools, and theaters?
(a) June 30, 1918.
(b) September 14, 1918.
(c) October 3, 1918.
(d) March 12, 1918.

5. Who sent a telegraph to William H. Park to ask his lab to investigate the Spanish flu from the National Research Council's section on medicine?
(a) Samuel Tilden.
(b) Elias Canetti.
(c) Richard Pearce.
(d) Louis Howe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?

2. Near what town was Camp Custer located in the fall of 1918?

3. Who was the U.S. Attorney General when the U.S. entered WWI?

4. What was the arsenic compound developed by Paul Ehrlich called that could cure syphilis patients?

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

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