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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to three people in Manhattan in 1926, according to the description in this chapter?
(a) Orange skin.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Rabies.

2. What was added to the aspirin compound in order to make it easier on stomachs to handle?
(a) Buffering compound.
(b) Caffeine.
(c) Calcium.
(d) Nothing.

3. In which city were school children beginning to get ill for no apparent reason?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Mountain Home.
(c) Miami.
(d) Culver City.

4. What had bitten the woman who died, though the doctor didn't think this was the cause of her disease?
(a) Dog.
(b) Bat.
(c) Cat.
(d) Rat.

5. What did all of the men abuse, which caused them to season their meals more than others at the table?
(a) Meat.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the fruit market that was discovered to be the source of the contamination and disease?

2. What is NOT one of the diagnoses that the woman who entered the Dallas hospital was given?

3. What else contained the poison to which the men had been exposed, something that was not realized until further inspection?

4. How many people besides Herman became ill with the dangerous food poisoning?

5. What is NOT one of the symptoms from which Billy was suffering when he first entered the hospital for treatment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Vernon Berry when he was traveling around the world?

2. What did the hospital tests on Elmo reveal to be a source of his condition?

3. Why was the attending doctor who saw Herman not alarmed by his condition when he arrived at the hospital?

4. What are some of the ways that aspirin can help a patient who takes it, according to scientific research?

5. What ended up causing the contamination of the fruit at Tony's Market, leading to the illnesses?

6. Where does the worm that afflicted Vernon normally live before it seeks out a human host?

7. What were the different diagnoses that the woman who went into the Dallas hospital had when she began her treatment?

8. What did doctors discover about American bats in the course of their trying to treat the woman who seemed to have rabies?

9. What did the local public health official find out about the health of the students who were impacted by the infection?

10. What were the severe symptoms that the woman had when she was admitted to the hospital before she died?

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