From Fear to Hope

What did Dolly wear so she could walk?

• braces

• cushions

• dresses

• slippers

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Read this sentence from the article: “Many who survived were like Dolly, left with lifelong damage to their limbs.” What does the word limbs mean in this sentence?

• happiness

• daily lives

• arms or legs

• tree branches

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What are TWO things that happened during a polio outbreak?

• stores stayed open

• schools shut down

• families quarantined

• kids played video games

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Who were the “polio pioneers”?

• children who received the polio vaccine

• scientists who researched the polio vaccine

• people who raised money for the polio vaccine

• TV characters who advertised the polio vaccine

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What did the vaccine do?

• showed who had polio

• treated the symptoms of polio

• helped people recover from polio

• reduced the number of cases of polio

What sentence from the article supports the answer to question 5?

• “Millions of dollars poured into laboratories where researchers were racing to develop a vaccine.”

• “By the time I was born, in the 1960s, polio was almost unheard of in the United States.”

• “The vaccine couldn’t help people like Dolly.”

• “But as she got older, the pain in her legs worsened.

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What are three ways in which today’s Covid-19 pandemic is similar to earlier polio outbreaks? Use evidence from the story to support your answer.

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