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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. Dean put his hands into his armpits to make his hands warmer when he was the ________ for a hand.
(a) Sitter.
(b) Dealer.
(c) Leader.
(d) Dummy.

2. Dr. Robert Henkin, who worked for the ___________, was finally given Rudy's case, since everyone else was stumped.
(a) National Institutes of Health.
(b) CDC.
(c) PSD.
(d) AMA.

3. The _______ from the infected animals came from the wet fur of the dogs when they came inside to shake themselves off.
(a) Skin.
(b) Hairs.
(c) Saliva.
(d) Teeth.

4. What is another name for collective obsessional behavior, according to the book?
(a) Mass hysteria.
(b) Mob mentality.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Lying.

5. Dr. Taylor began to think there was a/an _________ among the babies since everyone was diagnosed with the same disease.
(a) Influence.
(b) Epidemic.
(c) Error.
(d) Murderer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Natalie employed before she could not work anymore as a result of her condition?

2. What did the family raise, which made the investigators begin to think these might have had something to do with the cause?

3. What was aired out before Betty's husband came, which is why he didn't have the same symptoms as she did?

4. What kind of restaurant did Rudy Coniglio own, according to the details in the book?

5. What was the original diagnosis for Rudy's inability to smell or to taste anything pleasant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the chapter say seems to be a primary cause of sensitization of patients to metals?

2. How did the doctor end up treating this case of the blue hands, allowing the patient's hands to be normal color again?

3. What was the problem the investigators found during their hunt for answers about the infected babies?

4. What was the strange phenomenon that the pizza restaurant owner began to experience?

5. What is the problem for patients who are suffering from Wilson's disease, according to the book?

6. What was determined to be the cause of the illness that was later found to be tularemia?

7. Why did Natalie decide to seek out orthodontic treatment for her teeth in 1972?

8. What did the school officials begin to believe was the cause of the illnesses that were coming up in the student population?

9. Why wasn't Betty's husband experiencing any of the symptoms that she was?

10. What were the initial symptoms that Betty Page experienced, leading her to seek out medical treatment?

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