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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 did Natalie find out was given to her in order to help her depression, though this left her unaware of where she was?
(a) Electro-shock treatments.
(b) An injection of morphine.
(c) Hallucinogens.
(d) Medication.

2. What happened to other students after Sandy was taken to the hospital?
(a) Other students began to get ill.
(b) Other students left.
(c) Other students thought she was faking it.
(d) Other students looked for clues.

3. The children were determined to have _________ poisoning from the ingestion of the animal products.
(a) Mercury.
(b) Saltpeter.
(c) Iron.
(d) Copper.

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

5. What is not one of the causes of hepatitis, according to research and medical findings?
(a) Direct contact with a patient.
(b) Contaminated water.
(c) Sneezing on a person.
(d) Contaminated food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the suspected cause of the infant's symptoms in July 1965?

2. The symptoms the children were having indicated some sort of _____________, though the cause was unclear.

3. Students who were not in __________ did not become ill like others.

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

5. What is the chemical that the doctor used in order to relieve Dean's blue hands?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the meat the cause of the thyroid issues in Richard and in others?

2. What was the problem with the season being winter when it came to finding out the diagnosis for the sick children?

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

4. What happened to Sandy that began to cause the officials at the school to suspect something was wrong at the building?

5. What did Natalie find out when she woke up in a hospital and didn't know who she was?

6. Septicemia a general term for what, according to the explanations in this book?

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

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

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

10. What was the initial named cause for the random cases of pneumonia that turned up for guests at a house party at Martha's Vineyard?

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