Vocabulary Context Clues Quiz

Word: Paralysis

Context Clue: “Doctors do not know that each thread is a bundle of microscopic neurons. They do know that cutting the spinal cord results in paralysis. The higher the break in the spinal cord, the more complete the paralysis.”

• Loss of the ability to move

• A type of surgery

• A medical condition affecting the brain

• A type of neuron

Word: Localized

Context Clue: “His opponents believe in “localized function”; that is, they believe that the brain is divided into specific areas that control specific things.”

• Confined to a particular area

• Spread throughout the body

• A type of brain function

• A medical condition

Word: localizers

Context Clue: “Among Boston doctors, phrenology is considered serious stuff when Phineas walks into the middle of the debate of the Whole Brainers versus the Localizers. Both sides seize him as proof of their belief.”

• People who believe in specific brain functions

• A type of medical equipment

• A group of doctors

• A type of brain surgery

Word: Critical

Context Clue: “The tamping iron has not killed him because the damage is limited to specific organs that are not critical to life”.

• Essential

• Unimportant

• Dangerous

• Temporary

Word: grossly

Context Clue: “We have been informed by the best authority that after the man recovered, and while recovering, he was grossly profane, coarse, and vulgar, to such a degree that his society was intolerable to decent people.”

• Extremely

• Slightly

• Not at all

• Barely

Word: Course

Context Clue:“We have been informed by the best authority that after the man recovered, and while recovering, he was grossly profane, coarse, and vulgar, to such a degree that his society was intolerable to decent people.”

• Rough

• Smooth

• Gentle

• Polite

Word: Plots

Context Clue: “The EEG plots amazing patterns of electrical activity that match specific areas of the brain with specific functions. Toward the end of the twentieth century, scientists will invent brain scanners that can “image” the electrical and chemical activity inside a living brain.”

• Charts

• Destroys

• Ignores

• Enhances

Word: Originate

Context Clue: “The Whole Brainers believe that thoughts and commands can originate anywhere in the brain jelly/cloud and flash into action. If one part of the brain is injured, then the functions or thoughts that came from there will flow to another part.”

• Begin

• End

• Disappear

• Change