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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 store refused the box of damaged clothing, though it was still sold at a salvage store?
(a) Wal-Mart.
(b) Target.
(c) J.C. Penney.
(d) Sears.

2. What had bitten the woman who died, though the doctor didn't think this was the cause of her disease?
(a) Bat.
(b) Dog.
(c) Rat.
(d) Cat.

3. What was the diagnosis most people thought was the cause of Billy's symptoms, while the race was on to find the specific cause?
(a) Allergies.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) Pesticide poisoning.

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

5. What kind of substance does aspirin inhibit that causes things like aches, pains, and fever?
(a) Hormone.
(b) Sensitivity.
(c) Clot.
(d) Infection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else contained the poison to which the men had been exposed, something that was not realized until further inspection?

2. What allowed Vernon Berry to go on the trip that ended up causing him to contract a disease?

3. What did Dr. Conrad want tested when Billy reappeared in the hospital for the same symptoms? The family car and Billy's __________.

4. At its worst, the woman began to feel as though she was being thrown off the __________ itself.

5. What did the woman decide that she would continue to do, even though she was ill and didn't have a diagnosis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't some of the children become ill in the same way that Billy did when he wore the jeans?

2. What was the event that Herman had attended which led the doctor to the appropriate diagnosis?

3. How is the disease of typhoid fever spread, according to those who have studied it in the medical world?

4. How does a person contract anthrax if they come across it in the world?

5. What were the severe symptoms that the woman had when she was admitted to the hospital before she died?

6. What was the strange sensation the 'essentially normal' woman began to experience, leading to discomfort?

7. What did doctors discover about American bats in the course of their trying to treat the woman who seemed to have rabies?

8. Why did Elmo Turner decide that he needed to visit his doctor in order to get treatment?

9. What are some of the ways that aspirin can help a patient who takes it, according to scientific research?

10. Why did the three-year-old Richard Poole die after taking aspirin?

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