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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the chief medical officer at Camp Grant in June of 1918?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sidney Burleson.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Henle.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Blue.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Michie.

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

3. What ship that was once the pride of the German passenger fleet, had been confiscated by the U.S. undamaged during WWI?
(a) The Leviathan.
(b) The Discovery.
(c) The Rose Water.
(d) The Republica Dominica.

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

5. Where was Camp Dodge located?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Iowa.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

6. What is the title of Part 5 of the book?
(a) "Resolution."
(b) "Explosion."
(c) "The Warriors."
(d) "New Science."

7. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1892.

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

9. When did New York City's first influenza death occur in 1918?
(a) March 15.
(b) September 15.
(c) June 12.
(d) December 12.

10. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

11. Where was Charles-Edward Winslow working as an epidemiologist and professor when the 1918 outbreak occurred?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Princeton University.

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

13. How many bodies did the Philadelphia morgue have room for when the pandemic started in 1918?
(a) 22.
(b) 36.
(c) 52.
(d) 16.

14. What term from Chapter 25 refers to "the random movement of particles in a fluid" (302)?
(a) Articulate motion.
(b) Ambiguous motion.
(c) Lucidian motion.
(d) Brownian motion.

15. Who was the Philadelphia public health director when the outbreak of 1918 flu began in the city?
(a) Carl Ludwig.
(b) Wilmer Krusen.
(c) Rupert Blue.
(d) Jacob Henle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. enter into World War I?

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

3. 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)?

4. What did Oswald Avery add to his petri dish cultures to block pneumoccocal growth?

5. Camp Grant was located along what river?

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