Yellow Fever Solo 1

Read this sentence from "A Note to the Reader":

"Just over one hundred years ago a band of scientists and volunteers from two countries decided to fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases."

What did the author mean by the underlined word? (page 114)

• A flat, thin strip of material put around something, typically to hold it together or decorate it

• A group of musicians who play brass, wind, or percussion instruments

• A group of people who have a common interest or purpose

• A stripe or elongated area of a different color, texture, or composition than its surroundings

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

According to the text, what two nations worked together to fight against this disease? Select TWO.

• Canada

• The United States

• Mexico

• Cuba

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CCSS.RI.6.1

What is the most likely reason the author included this note? (page 114)

• To thank the readers for purchasing her book

• To give useful background knowledge about the disease covered in the book

• To persuade the reader to get vaccinated against deadly diseases

• To recognize that there are many heroes in this story who are not mentioned by name

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CCSS.RI.6.6

Read the following sentences from paragraph 6 (page 116):
"Slowly physicians began to conquer deadly sicknesses like cholera, typhoid, anthrax, and diphtheria. But yellow fever still raged."

In the passage, the term 'raged' most likely means:

• Decline in a small way

• Stated with anger

• Continued with force

• Became popular

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Scientists use vaccines to make: (pages 115-117)

• Disinfectant

• Mustard baths

• Dead or weakened germs

• Disease-fighting substances

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

Which event happened first that led to the United States being in control of Cuba in 1898? (pages 115-117)

• The United States declares war on Spain

• Spain controls Puerto Rico and Cuba

• The United States beats the Spanish navy

• The USS battleship Maine is destroyed

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

The USS Sedgwick is a: (pages 117-118)

• Helicopter

• Submarine

• ship

• train

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

Choose the sentence that best sums up Dr. Reed's mission.

• For roughly twenty years, Reed had dreamed of being able to do something big, something important, something that he hoped would 'alleviate human suffering.' -

• For ten more years, Reed had hoped to make a major contribution while he did research and taught students at the U.S. Army Medical School in Washington, D.C.

• Just a few weeks earlier, the U.S. Army had ordered Dr. Walter Reed to go to Cuba, head a team of three other doctors, and find the cause of yellow fever.

• It was a dream he'd had when he was a young army doctor tending settlers, soldiers, and Apaches on lonely frontier outposts.

• It was something he'd thought about when we went back to school at age thirty-nine to study bacteriology-a brand-new branch of medical science that dealt with the disease-causing germs that researchers called bacteria.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a possible cause of yellow fever?

• People contract yellow fever from mosquito bites.

• People contract yellow fever from a bacteria called Basillus icteroides.

• Yellow fever is passed through contaminated clothing that has been touched by yellow fever patients.

• Yellow fever is caused by seasickness.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

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