AP Success - AP World History: 1918 Influenza Impact on Natives
Source 1
"The beginning of the Flu is prostration, with headache, coryza, more of less running of the nose, but is marked by great prostration, the patients in the case of Indians literally falling to the floor. You would enter a placito and find all the inmates reclining . . . with hard, racking cough . . . the temperature ranging from 102 to 105."
Dr. D.A. Richardson, "Influenza Epidemic at Pueblos of Albuquerque Day School Section," December 20, 1918
Question 1
Based on Dr. D.A. Richardson's description, which symptom was NOT observed in the influenza epidemic among the Pueblo peoples?
Question 2
The source describes the impact of the 1918 influenza on a specific population. What does this suggest about the pandemic's reach?
Question 3
The account given by Dr. D.A. Richardson is an example of which of the following types of sources?
Question 4
What aspect of the 1918 influenza's impact is highlighted by the phrase 'patients...literally falling to the floor'?
Question 5
The high fevers described in the source were indicative of what kind of response in those afflicted by the 1918 influenza?
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