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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Foreword to Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability?
(a) Saliency.
(b) Elitist.
(c) Migrant.
(d) Prodigy.

2. When Johnny was put in the infirmary for a stiff neck in Chapter 1, there was what kind of scare at the school?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Polio.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Influenza.

3. How was Johnny working to strengthen his eye problems in Chapter 1?
(a) Eye exercises.
(b) A strict diet.
(c) Contact lenses.
(d) Glasses.

4. Johnny underwent x-ray treatment until what date, when they stopped the treatment because of the danger of killing off tissue and causing white blood cells to deteriorate, in Chapter 2?
(a) July 15, 1946.
(b) July 10, 1945.
(c) June 20, 1946.
(d) September 12, 1950.

5. What refers to the medical use of ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells?
(a) Paleontific therarpy.
(b) Radiation therapy.
(c) Atomic therapy.
(d) Hydrogen therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Johnny went to the Neurological Institute in what city in Chapter 1?

2. How much of the tumor were the doctors able to remove during Johnny's first operation in Chapter 1?

3. When Johnny was a few months old, the family moved where?

4. Who was the Gunther family doctor in the book?

5. When Johnny's first surgery was over, his parents were informed that the tumor was the size of what?

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