Civil Action Quiz

What is most closely the meaning of speculating as it is used in the following passage (paragraph 1)?

Although she knew that was an unproven hypothesis, she and Carol Gray spent hours speculating about it.

• verb | proving something to be true

• verb | investing in high-risk businesses

• verb | observing from a high point

• verb | engaging in thought

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which sentence from the excerpt best shows Anne Anderson’s determination to understand the problem in the excerpt?

• “She wondered if it was coincidence or if a virus of some sort was circulating.”

• “From the back door of the Kane’s house, looking east across the expanse of marsh, you could see the houses of the Pine Street neighborhood a quarter of a mile away.”

• “She made the first of many lists of the cases she knew about, writing in a spiral notebook the names of the children, their addresses, their ages, and the dates when she figured they had been diagnosed.”

• “‘It seemed like no sooner would I get everything fixed and we’d have another problem.’”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

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The following excerpt from the final paragraph mainly shows that fill in the blank_________.

The notion that each case shared some common cause began to obsess her.

• Anne was emotionally invested in the case

• Anne began to go crazy

• the cases had similarities and differences

• The author is saying that Anne didn’t care about the cases.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

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CCSS.RL.7.1

The following excerpt from the first paragraph mainly shows that fill in the blank___________.

She wondered if it was coincidence or if a virus of some sort was circulating. Dr. Truman, she remembered, had mentioned that some cancer researchers suspected a virus might cause childhood leukemia.

• Anne had childhood leukemia.

• Anne suspects the cause of the leukemia outbreak is a virus.

• Anne had a virus.

• Anne is a cancer researcher.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which inference about the discovery of childhood leukemia in Woburn is best supported by the text?

• It took a long time to prove a link among childhood cases of leukemia in the neighborhood.

• Dr. Truman led the investigation to find a link among childhood leukemia in the neighborhood.

• Doctors tried to hide information about the cases of childhood leukemia in the neighborhood.

• Anne Anderson and Carol Gray exaggerated symptoms to arouse interest from the public about childhood leukemia in the neighborhood.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “Truman listened in his polite, attentive manner, tall frame slightly stooped, but he would admit later that he did not give Anne’s question any serious consideration.”

• “Nor did it occur to Truman a year later, in June 1973, that there was anything unusual about the illness of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy from Woburn named Kevin Kane, Jr.”

• “Two weeks earlier he had been treated unsuccessfully for a respiratory infection that did not respond to penicillin.”

• “He reported the news to his mother, who went immediately to the phone and called Anne.”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

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CCSS.RI.7.1

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 4)?

Nor did it occur to Truman a year later, in June 1973, that there was anything unusual about the illness of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy from Woburn named Kevin Kane, Jr. The boy had been referred to Truman from Winchester Hospital where his mother, a nurse, had taken him because of a persistent fever, pallor, and irritability. Two weeks earlier he had been treated unsuccessfully for a respiratory infection that did not respond to penicillin. His history on presentation at Winchester Hospital included several respiratory infections as well as recurrent episodes of earaches. Winchester referred Kevin Kane to Dr. Truman at Massachusetts General with a “high suspicion” of acute lymphocytic leukemia. Truman confirmed the suspicion. He began treating Kevin Kane on a chemotherapy regimen similar to the St. Jude protocol. The child responded well. At four weeks, a bone marrow aspiration revealed that he was in remission.

• The childhood leukemia was treatable.

• The doctors were incapable of doing their jobs.

• Children with leukemia had to go to lots of doctors.

• Children got sick a lot.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

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CCSS.RL.8.2

Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

• “Two weeks earlier he had been treated unsuccessfully for a respiratory infection that did not respond to penicillin.”

• “The boy had been referred to Truman from Winchester Hospital where his mother, a nurse, had taken him because of a persistent fever, pallor, and irritability.”

• “Winchester referred Kevin Kane to Dr. Truman at Massachusetts General…”

• “The child responded well. At four weeks, a bone marrow aspiration revealed that he was in remission.”

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CCSS.RI.8.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5