How Vaccines Work

How Vaccines Work

Assessment

Interactive Video

History

6th - 7th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Cynthia Cornelio

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what year did Edward Jenner conduct his groundbreaking experiment that led to the first vaccine?

1796

1896

1696

1996

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which scientist is credited with injecting material from a cowpox virus into an 8-year-old boy to prevent smallpox?

Louis Pasteur

Edward Jenner

Robert Koch

Alexander Fleming

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of virus material did Edward Jenner use in his initial experiment?

Smallpox virus

Chickenpox virus

Cowpox virus

Measles virus

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The material used by Jenner for inoculation originated from which source?

A human patient

A laboratory culture

An animal

A plant extract

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How old was the boy who was the subject of Edward Jenner's first vaccination experiment?

6 years old

8 years old

10 years old

12 years old

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was Edward Jenner's initial hypothesis regarding the cowpox virus material?

It would cause a new illness

It would have no effect on humans

It would provide protection against smallpox

It would worsen existing conditions

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Edward Jenner's experiment aimed to protect people from which deadly disease?

Cowpox

Chickenpox

Smallpox

Measles

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