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1. 1.

   Choose the right options to complete these sentences.

   1. The fever that affected soldiers right after the war was called
      1. three-day-fever by doctors.
      2. French flu by Spanish soldiers.
      3. Spanish flu by French soldiers. 
      4. all of the above
   2. Twenty thousand people dies in British in 1918
      1. due to cholera.
      2. due to influenza.
      3. due to plague.
      4. due to the First World War
   3. The first cases of influenza in India were reported in June, 1918in
      1. Bombay
      2. Madras
      3. Karachi
      4. Pune.
2. 2.

   A pun is a play on words. Explain the pun used by the children in their song about flu.
3. 3.

   Describe how the flu pandemic affected India.
4. 4.

   1. What "cross-strain interactions' are being referred to in the last paragraph of the text?
   2. Why do these pose a particular threat?
5. 5.

   Doctors were able to identify this by the bluish colour of the victim's skin.

   1. What were the doctors able to identify?
   2. What happened to patients who had this condition?
6. 6.

   While these heroic and imaginative attempts to deal with this new strain of influenza went on...

   1. What attempts are being referred to here?
   2. Were these attempts scientific? Did these attempts yield any results?