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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The West Branch Study.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which city were school children beginning to get ill for no apparent reason?
(a) Mountain Home.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Culver City.
(d) Miami.

2. What happened to three people in Manhattan in 1926, according to the description in this chapter?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Orange skin.
(d) Rabies.

3. What was found on the lungs of all of the children who complained of feeling sick?
(a) Scarring.
(b) Tumors.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Cloudiness.

4. What is NOT one of the symptoms the children in this chapter were experiencing?
(a) Cough.
(b) Nausea.
(c) High fever.
(d) Headache.

5. What is the source of the infection that was afflicting people in this section of the book?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Injections.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Virus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had remained wet after the pipes had been fixed, leading to the contamination?

2. It was discovered that while the __________ all lived in the same neighborhood, they did not frequent the same events as others in their area.

3. Once the anthrax _______ are in the body, they excrete a toxic substance as they grow and multiply.

4. What was the name of the fruit market that was discovered to be the source of the contamination and disease?

5. The health department began to check every ________, fruit and vegetable stand, and restaurant in the area to find the source of the infections.

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