Worms

Worms

Multiple Choice

How is Mr. Kofi introduced in Chapter 1? Select details from the text to support your response.

• The text states that Kofi lives in Ghana. His job is to help control the guinea worm problem there.

• The text says that Kofi has healed all people of the worms.

• Kofi jobs is to take the worms out of people that have them.

• Kofi lives in Ghana.

Multiple Choice

How does the reader first become aware of what guinea worms are?

• The text states that guinea worms are parasites that are found in parts of Asia and Africa.

• People get guinea worm disease by drinking water that’s infested with water fleas.

• People get warms by open wombs that are not well taken care of.

• Both text states that worms are parasites that are found in parts of Asia and Africa and people get guinea worm disease by drinking water that is infested with water fleas.

Multiple Choice

Why was it important for the author to introduce the Fusheni family at this point in the text?

• The author shows how the worm has helped the Fusheni Family.

• The author shows an example of is affecting the entire world.

• The author is providing an example of how the guinea worm has affected the Fusheni family.

• The author is providing details about how the worm is affecting people all across the nation.

Multiple Choice

Explain why it was important for the author to include the cycle of guinea worms on these pages.

• The author is explaining how the infection spreaded in just one area.

• The author is explaining the process of how people become infected with guinea worms.

• The author is did a study and is showing the results of how the guinea worm affected us.

• The worm is affecting the world fastly and they cannot understand why.

Multiple Choice

Which sentences from the text best illustrates how the people in the Fushenis’ village were at risk of getting guinea worms?

• People live all together and can be infected.

• People live close together.

• People walk next to each other and can get it.

• When people shop at the super market they can get it only.

Multiple Choice

Explain why it is important for the author to include the picture on page 20?

• To showing who was being affected with it and what they looked like.

• To show what it looks like

• The author was illustrating how people may become infected with the guinea worm.

• To make the story more interesting.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the text develops the idea that Kofi had figured out that the Fushenis were not infected from the water source that the entire village shared?

• Everyone in the village was infected.

• No one else in the village had become infected with guinea worms in the past year.

• You were only affected when you lived with a lot of people.

• None of the above.

Multiple Choice

How does the author support the claim that The Carter Center is leading the fight to wipe out the guinea worm?

• : According to the text, Carter center workers gave people in infected areas drinking straws with filters

• The workers dig wells to reach clean water

• By 2011, the disease had been eradicated in Ghana.

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which sentences from the text develop the idea that removing the worms from humans is not easy?

• A team of doctors has come to help Kofi.

• The process takes time and a lot of patience. The description of how Kofi removed the worms from the oldest boy.

• That would cause most of the worm to die.

• He promised to return in two days.

Multiple Choice

Why does the author include the last paragraph of this section?

• They have to get rid of the fleas that gave them the infection.

• The author is indicating that getting rid of the worms was only half of the problem. Now they must get rid of the water fleas before the worms infect another human.

• The doctors have to cut off whatever part is affected.

• The author does not understand the disease,

Multiple Choice

Why does the author include the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about treating guinea worm disease?

• The disease has affected not many people but all that were affected was killed.

• The author is providing more information to answer questions that people may still have about guinea worm disease.

• The author did not include an

• anything because it can not be cured.