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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the protagonist’s profession in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) Miner.
(b) Chimney-sweep
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Rancher.

2. What profession did Robert DeMatteis have?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Schoolteacher.
(c) Attorney.
(d) Computer guru.

3. It is suggested that Ishmael Garcia contracted HIV by what means?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Cutting himself on the subway.
(c) During a surgical procedure.
(d) Sexual intercourse.

4. When was William Osler’s Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man published?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1869.

5. What refers to any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Lymphocyte.
(c) Endorphins.
(d) Bacteriophage.

6. What is Chapter 9’s title in the book?
(a) “Murder and Serenity.”
(b) “The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man.”
(c) “Doors to Death of the Aged.”
(d) “A Valentine—and How it Fails.”

7. What word from Chapter 8 refers to a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation?
(a) Atria.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Aphasia.
(d) Stigma.

8. What term refers to a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system?
(a) Ventricles.
(b) Lymphocyte.
(c) Bacteriophage.
(d) Endorphins.

9. The author writes in the Epilogue, “A family grasps at a straw that comes in the form of” what?
(a) “A statistic.”
(b) “A newspaper article.”
(c) “A bible verse.”
(d) “An urban legend.”

10. What word in Chapter 7 refers to a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Obtundation.
(d) Asphyxia.

11. How tall was Robert DeMatteis?
(a) 6'3".
(b) 5’8”.
(c) 6'1".
(d) 5’4”.

12. How much did Robert DeMatteis weigh, according to the author in Chapter 11?
(a) 320 lbs.
(b) 245 lbs.
(c) 150 lbs.
(d) 185 lbs.

13. By what title is Hippocrates often referred?
(a) The ancient witchdoctor.
(b) Ancient Rome’s official physician.
(c) The doctor of ancient Greece.
(d) The father of Western medicine.

14. Approximately when was Hippocrates born?
(a) 460 B.C.
(b) 650 B.C.
(c) 115 A.D.
(d) 225 B.C.

15. Who wrote The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?
(a) James Cowles Prichard.
(b) Dr. Kennith Ring.
(c) William Caxton.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby?

2. What is the title of Chapter 7?

3. What is the title of Chapter 8 in the book?

4. In what year did Harold Bliss die?

5. Where was Leo Tolstoy from?

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