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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did Paul Lewis attend college?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) The University of Wisconsin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part 8?

2. What does the author say the incubation period of influenza is in Chapter 17?

3. Where did Paul Lewis grow up?

4. When did Rupert Blue complete his medical studies?

5. How many people died in Philadelphia on October 1, 1918?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the U.S. newspapers not reporting widely on the pandemic of 1918?

2. What happened to the soldiers that Colonel Charles Hagadorn had transported from Camp Grant to Camp Hancock?

3. Who was Colonel Charles Hagadorn and how did he die?

4. What does "the grippe" refer to?

5. Who was Rupert Blue and why is he important in the narrative?

6. Who was Richard Pfeiffer and why is his work noted in the book?

7. What does the term "epidemiology" refer to?

8. What were the results of Dr. W. R. Redden's serum trial?

9. How did the 1918 flu affect the human lungs?

10. What was the political landscape of Philadelphia in September of 1918?

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