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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 is not one of the causes of hepatitis, according to research and medical findings?

3. What did Betty decide to do in order to get over her symptoms and her medical condition?

4. What did Sara have inserted into her body in April of the same year, which is the same time the problems began?

5. What was the name of the place from which all of the victims had bought their food?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why didn't the man who hand kneaded the dough cause any infection to spread when the bread was baked?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

The woman who did not have anything wrong with her, but experienced vertigo was a medical mystery from start to finish, with no diagnosis.

Part 1: Why do you think the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with the professional woman?

Part 2: Do you think the woman might have been lying about her life and her symptoms?

Part 3: Describe a time when you had a symptom that you could not explain. What happened?

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