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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the dierector of the Public Health Service's Hygenic Laboratory in 1918?

2. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral?

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

4. How old was William H. Park in 1918?

5. When did Park create the Laboratory for Special Therapy and Investigation in rival to the Rockefeller Institute?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Council of National Defense become involved in the Philadelphia outbreak?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the political atmosphere at the time of the 1918 flu pandemic. Who was the president of the United States? What was the global political atmosphere? How did politics influence the spread of the disease?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and career of Simon Flexner. Where did Flexner study? Where did he work at the time of the flu pandemic? What achievements did he make in his career?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the life and career of William Henry Welch. Why does the author regard Welch as an influential pioneer? What was Welch's role during the 1918 flu pandemic? For what is he most known?

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