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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. What sentence was socialist Eugene Debs given for opposing the war then the U.S. entered it?
(a) 20 years in prison.
(b) 5 years in prison.
(c) 15 years in prison.
(d) 10 years in prison.

2. How many people were reported to have died from influenza in Philadelphia on October 5, 1918?
(a) 135.
(b) 625.
(c) 195.
(d) 254.

3. When did Park create the Laboratory for Special Therapy and Investigation in rival to the Rockefeller Institute?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1915.

4. Where did William Welch go for part of his recuperation in Atlantic City?
(a) Hotel Monmarte.
(b) The Four Corners.
(c) Hotel Dennis.
(d) Hotel Devonshire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Anna Williams in 1918?

2. Where was Camp Dodge located?

3. When was the great Liberty Loan parade held in Philadelphia, infecting many with the 1918 flu?

4. When did Teddy Roosevelt create the Great Lakes Naval Training Station?

5. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did William Henry Welch respond when he became infected with the flu?

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

6. What did the outfall of the Liberty Loan Parade look like?

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

8. What were the informational aspects of the pandemic that that scientists sought to discover, according to the author in Chapter 22?

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

10. What does the term "cyanotic" refer to and how does it relate to the 1918 flu?

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