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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the food product that seemed to be causing the thyroid troubles in Richard and in others?

3. How many children in a family of nine became ill when the CDC was called in to help?

4. What did Natalie decide to keep when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital?

5. What was the only thing Rudy was able to eat, but only in very small amounts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is infectious hepatitis usually passed from one person to another, according to the book?

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

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

5. What were the treatments that were begun on the contact dermatitis, though these treatments were not successful?

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

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

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

9. What does the book point out is the treatment for Wilson's disease, helping the patient recover nearly immediately?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Vernon Berry was the victim of several worms as a result of swimming in the Nile River.

Part 1: Do you think that tourists should be warned about the possibility of worms?

Part 2: How do you think you might have responded to the diagnosis of worms in your body?

Part 3: Why do you think a person might decide to swim in a foreign body of water which might be contaminated?

Essay Topic 2

Strange diseases, like the case of the orange man, are interesting to doctors, but the patients might have other reactions.

Part 1: How do you think you would respond if you suddenly turned another color?

Part 2: Why do you think the patient didn't make the connection to the foods he was eating?

Part 3: What would it take for you to go into a doctor to find out what disease you had?

Essay Topic 3

A plant grafting leads to a medical mystery that turns out to be a problem of Jimson weed ingestion.

Part 1: Why do you think a person who grafts plants doesn't realize what plant they have grafted?

Part 2: How do you think this poisoning could have been prevented?

Part 3: Do you worry about the foods you eat when you sit down at a restaurant or with friends?

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