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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. What happened when Sara continued the treatments for her rash?

2. What happened to other students after Sandy was taken to the hospital?

3. What is NOT one of the treatments that Natalie pursued in order to help her with her depression?

4. What ended up being the specific term for the infection that was killing the babies?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What did investigators find to be unusual about the feed in the storage bin?

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

9. Which individuals are more likely to have hypogeusia, according to the specialist in this section?

10. What did Dean decide to do when he was experiencing cold hands during a card game?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

People who are diagnosed with typhoid fever are barred from working with food.

Part 1: Do you think it's fair to bar someone from working with food when they are ill?

Part 2: Have you ever worked in a service related position when you were sick? Would you?

Part 3: Why do you think a person might work at their job, even though they are ill and contagious?

Essay Topic 2

At times, the source of an illness might be a mystery, and one possible source can be ruled out, as in the case of the Liberace Room.

Part 1: Why do you think there could be different sources for an illness?

Part 2: How do you think the medical detectives could have found the true cause of the classroom illnesses sooner?

Part 3: Do you think that any disease has only one cause for its symptoms? Or are all diseases the result of many factors?

Essay Topic 3

Natalie Parker had a bad experience with her dentist, leading to a depression, which led her into a mental health hospital and electroshock treatments.

Part 1: How do you think a doctor might treat depression today?

Part 2: Do you think that electroshock therapy is the best way to help a patient who is suffering from depression?

Part 3: What do you think you would have done if you learned you had had electroshock therapy?

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