WorksheetsPellagra
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Eating too much corn caused pellagra?
True
False
Changing the orphans' diet cured those who had pellagra?
True
False
Pellagra is not an infectious disease?
True
False
What thing listed is not something they thought caused pellagra?
Corn
Bacteria
Being poor
Poor diet
What caused pellagra?
Eating corn
Being an inmate at a jail
Being an orphan
Lack of a nutritious diet
What is not a symptom of pellagra?
Fever
Rash
Insanity
Death
Who was affected by pellagra?
Orphans
Nurses
Teachers
Doctors
What is a hypothesis?
Educated guess
What happens when you have pellagra
What you think is going to happen based on observation and facts.
An experiment done on healthy people
How did Dr. Goldberger give people pellagra?
Fed them corn.
Spreading the germ to them.
Feeding them a poor diet.
Not keeping inmates cells clean.
When humans are subject to a scientific study, it does not matter how many people are in the study.
True
False
Who was the scientist studying Pellagra?
Ronald McDonald
Mona Lisa
Dr. GoldBerger
Leonardo DiCaprio
What was Dr. Goldberger's first step in studying Pellagra?
Made a hypothesis.
Observed the people in the south who had pellagra.
Determined the cause of pellagra.
Conducted two experiments; one with orphans and the other with prisoners.
After Dr. Goldberger published his results, ....
Southerners suggested his findings were fake.
Southerners accepted his conclusion.
he was highly recognized for his great discovery.
he won two million dollars.
What observation helped Dr. Goldberger eliminate the theory that Pellagra was caused by bacteria and contagious?
He used a microscope to test for bacteria presence.
He observed that nurses, doctors, guards and teachers did not get sick with pellagra.
Not all people with pellagra were dirty.
Bacteria did not live in Southern USA.
