Saving the Lost

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What is the genre of Saving the Lost? Options: Fiction (Fake), Informational (Gives information), Science Fiction (like Star Wars), Mystery

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Informational (Gives information)

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What is a vegetative state?

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Out of a coma, but unaware of who or where you are

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Which sentences from the text BEST shows Adrian Owen's motivation for researching "neuroimaging"? Options: Different parts of the brain process different kinds of thoughts, Owen's concern was that neuroimaging was breaking no new ground, In 1997, Owen and his team began testing a patient who was in a vegetative state, Owen continued his research, and in 2006 he made another breakthrough.

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Owen's concern was that neuroimaging was breaking no new ground

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What did Adrian Owen discover?

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new information about vegetative states

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What was already known through neuroimaging before Adrian Owen came along?

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Different parts of the brain process different kinds of thoughts.

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According to the text, what motivated Adrian Owen to study neuroimaging?

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He wanted to find more uses for it.

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How do you know the woman in the vegetative state recovered?

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She wrote Adrian Owen a thank you letter.

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What do Adrian Ownen's critics think about his second breakthrough?

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They think the patient had an involuntary response to his last words.

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What was the effect of Adrian Owen publishing his discovery in 2010?

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A Canadian university offered him a large amount of money to research there.

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Out of the thousands of people in vegetative states, approximately how many does Adrian Owen think could be able to communicate?

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one-fifth