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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 kind of birds did several of the classrooms in the school have that might have caused the disease?
(a) Parakeets.
(b) Robins.
(c) Ostriches.
(d) Ravens.

2. In which part of her body did the New York woman begin to get more sensitive in relation to her disease?
(a) Hands.
(b) Feet.
(c) Head.
(d) Chest.

3. Who developed a vaccine for the rabies virus in the 1880s?
(a) Mendelhass.
(b) Pasteur.
(c) Curie.
(d) Strick.

4. What else contained the poison to which the men had been exposed, something that was not realized until further inspection?
(a) Sidewalks.
(b) Toast.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Salt shakers.

5. Jimson weed is a distant relative of the _________ plant, a distant cousin according to the book.
(a) Apple.
(b) Green bean.
(c) Lettuce.
(d) Tomato.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city were school children beginning to get ill for no apparent reason?

2. Whocooked the pig that was served at the fest where people became ill?

3. What was the diagnosis most people thought was the cause of Billy's symptoms, while the race was on to find the specific cause?

4. What is the common source of the infection described in #16, according to medical researchers?

5. The health department began to check every ________, fruit and vegetable stand, and restaurant in the area to find the source of the infections.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How had Jimson weed gotten into the food that the victims had eaten?

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

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

5. What was the eventual diagnosis for the condition from which the woman suffered, even though it was never clear whether or not the diagnosis was correct?

6. Why were the men who were eating the oatmeal more likely to have more salt on their oatmeal than others who were in the diner?

7. What happened when the eleven men were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning when they were first seen by medical professionals?

8. What were the symptoms that Herman Sauer was experiencing that led him to go to a New York hospital?

9. What did Billy receive as treatment when he was first admitted and then discharged to home?

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

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