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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 was the approximate population of the United states in 1918-1919?
(a) 130-140 million.
(b) 80-85 million.
(c) 120-125 million.
(d) 105-110 million.

2. Near what town was Camp Custer located in the fall of 1918?
(a) Battle Creek, Michigan.
(b) Roarke, New York.
(c) Malvern, Pennsylvania.
(d) Augusta, Georgia.

3. Outside of what city was Camp Grant located, according to the author in Chapter 18?
(a) West Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Mena, Arkansas.
(c) Rockford, Illinois.
(d) Dallas, Texas.

4. When the 1918 flu infected Camp Grant in Illinois, in six days the hospital went from 610 occupied beds to how many occupied?
(a) 6,231.
(b) 3,252.
(c) 4,102.
(d) 1,245.

5. In what year did Rupert Blue rise to the position of U.S. Surgeon General?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Emma Snyder when she died?

3. Who was Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisor that kept in hourly touch with his doctors when Roosevelt contracted the 1918 flu?

4. How old was Richard Pfeiffer in 1918?

5. When did Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder issue his "work or fight" order?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the results of Paul Lewis's flu vaccine trial described in Chapter 24?

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

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

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

5. Who was Wilmer Krusen and what decision did he make that was crucial to the spread of the virus?

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

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

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

9. Who was Joe Capps and what contribution did he have to the scientists fighting the virus?

10. What did the Providence Journal report on the pandemic, according to the author in Chapter 29?

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