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Pellagra

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Eating too much corn caused pellagra?

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Changing the orphans' diet cured those who had pellagra?

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Pellagra is not an infectious disease?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What thing listed is not something they thought caused pellagra?

a)

Corn

b)

Bacteria

c)

Being poor

d)

Poor diet

5.

What caused pellagra?

a)

Eating corn

b)

Being an inmate at a jail

c)

Being an orphan

d)

Lack of a nutritious diet

6.

What is not a symptom of pellagra?

a)

Fever

b)

Rash

c)

Insanity

d)

Death

7.

Who was affected by pellagra?

a)

Orphans

b)

Nurses

c)

Teachers

d)

Doctors

8.

What is a hypothesis?

a)

Educated guess

b)

What happens when you have pellagra

c)

What you think is going to happen based on observation and facts.

d)

An experiment done on healthy people

9.

How did Dr. Goldberger give people pellagra?

a)

Fed them corn.

b)

Spreading the germ to them.

c)

Feeding them a poor diet.

d)

Not keeping inmates cells clean.

10.

When humans are subject to a scientific study, it does not matter how many people are in the study.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Who was the scientist studying Pellagra?

a)

Ronald McDonald

b)

Mona Lisa

c)

Dr. GoldBerger

d)

Leonardo DiCaprio

12.

What was Dr. Goldberger's first step in studying Pellagra?

a)

Made a hypothesis.

b)

Observed the people in the south who had pellagra.

c)

Determined the cause of pellagra.

d)

Conducted two experiments; one with orphans and the other with prisoners.

13.

After Dr. Goldberger published his results, ....

a)

Southerners suggested his findings were fake.

b)

Southerners accepted his conclusion.

c)

he was highly recognized for his great discovery.

d)

he won two million dollars.

14.

What observation helped Dr. Goldberger eliminate the theory that Pellagra was caused by bacteria and contagious?

a)

He used a microscope to test for bacteria presence.

b)

He observed that nurses, doctors, guards and teachers did not get sick with pellagra.

c)

Not all people with pellagra were dirty.

d)

Bacteria did not live in Southern USA.